In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions …

Several countries extend collective bargaining agreements to entire sectors, therefore binding non-subscriber workers …

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 contributes to a deeper understanding of sector-level bargaining systems and their role for labour market … performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining systems, the Netherlands and Portugal, and … effectiveness of coordination across bargaining units; and iv) pro-active government policies to enhance trust and cooperation …

- collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage cyclicality. Our evidence is drawn from rich, 2002-2020 matched data …

importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …