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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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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 …

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Market power, dismissal threat and rent sharing : the role of insider and outsider forces in wage bargaining

Carneiro, Anabela (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2006

power tend to pay higher wages. In particular, we found that the threat of dismissal acts to weaken insiders' bargaining …

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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...

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Upward nominal wage rigidity

Guimarães, Paulo; Martins, Fernando; Portugal, Pedro - 2017

In Portugal, as in many other countries in continental Europe, the collective wage agreements between trade unions and employer associations that define wage floors for specific job titles are systematically extended to the whole industry. This means that many firms are obliged to increase the...

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Labor market imperfections and the firm's wage setting policy

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016

We use matched employer-employee data and firm balance sheet data to investigate the importance of firm productivity and firm labor market power in explaining firm heterogeneity in wage formation. We use a linear regression model with one interacted high dimensional fixed effect to estimate...

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Unions and collective bargaining in the wake of the Great Recession

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

nominal wage rigidity" in more normal times) rather than the immediate expression of a crisis in collective bargaining per se. …

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

considerations) as bargaining power increases. The principal result of the decomposition exercise at the most aggregate level is that …' enabling them to avoid some of the strictures of unionism bargaining power. …

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On the asymmetrical sensitivity of the distribution of real wages to business cycle fluctuations

Barrela, Rodrigo; Costa, Eduardo; Portugal, Pedro - 2024

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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 …

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