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Wage cyclicality and labour market institutions
Pereira, João Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024
Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959934
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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...
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Bargained wages, wage drift and the design of the wage setting system
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
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Wage distributions by bargaining regime : linked employer-employee data evidence from Germany
Kohn, Karsten (contributor);  … - 2007
Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, this paper provides a comprehensive picture of the wage structure in three wage-setting regimes prevalent in the German system of industrial relations. We analyze wage distributions for various labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003601908
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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed … results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …. The results show that union power was relatively stable in the 1990s but fell substantially (by almost one-third) from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310697
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Disentangling pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : the case of Germany
Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413818