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Misalignment of productivity and wages across regions? : evidence from Belgian matched panel data

Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2016

-employee panel data for Belgium and rely on methodological approaches from both Hellerstein and Neumark (1995) and Bartolucci (2014 … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …

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Productivity and wage effects of firm-level collective agreements : evidence from Belgian linked panel data

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, François; Terraz, Isabelle - 2018

that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests … that firm-level agreements benefit to both employers and employees - through higher productivity and wages - without being …

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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility : the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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How representative are social partners in Europe? : the role of dissimilarity

Martinez-Matute, Marta; Martins, Pedro S. - 2022

Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) and their representativeness can shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, when examining social partners' representativeness, it is important to consider both affiliation...

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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

. The present paper investigates the association between pacts and a wider set of outcomes – wages, employment, investment … establishment performance. Indeed, the positive effects reported for wages, productivity, and innovation are sustained in …

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What do employers' associations do?

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

, employment, productivity, and wages of affiliated and non-affiliated firms. Exploiting changes in firm affiliation status over …

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Collective bargaining through the magnifying glass : a comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Parlevliet, Jante - 2017

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 document a number of features that may affect labour...

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