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The effect of firm-level contracts on the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Card, David E. (contributor); Rica, Sara de la (contributor) - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002525189
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The effects of unions on wage inequality : the Italian case in the 1990s
Checchi, Daniele (contributor); Pagani, Laura (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
bargaining (i.e. reducing between-sector differentials) and/or local bargaining (i.e. reducing within-establishment inequality …-employees data-set, surveyed in 1995 by Eurostat. We pay great care to the potential endogeneity of local bargaining, and we find … that the widespread adoption of local bargaining, by reducing the implicit price of individual characteristics, effectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485563
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Wage flexibility under sectoral bargaining
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021
collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509681
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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949616
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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360090
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Hours inequality
Checchi, Daniele; Garca-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation...
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