In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …

This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining … retain their negotiating positions, on which their bargaining power is based. In our analysis, by contrast, the firm can … the negotiators' alternative to bargaining (i.e. their fall-back positions and outside options); they affect the nature of …