This paper shows that, if observed earnings are the result of employer-employee wage bargaining, under a set of … bargaining power, and provide (further) empirical evidence against this hypothesis. -- Mincer equation ; return to schooling … ; wage bargaining …

manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters according to sector, firm size and … period. We find a significant drop in both the mark-up and the workers' bargaining power in the mid-nineties. In the second … significantly contributed to the decrease in both mark-ups and workers' bargaining power. -- workers' bargaining power ; mark …

positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on the bargaining power of workers. Since not all … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which … bargaining power of women with young children is essentially zero. -- Commuting ; search model ; simultaneous equations …

, and individual and firm-level wage regressions. Unions' impact through collective and firm-level bargaining mainly works …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed …. -- trade union power ; wage bargaining ; labour share ; Germany …

that unions were engaged in concession bargaining. Overall, our results challenge the common view that trade unions in the …

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining …