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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of major recessions over the last 30 years in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-industry-skill specific minimum wage floors for all...

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Union decline in Britain

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688784

Migration and imperfect labor markets : theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …

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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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Gradual collective wage bargaining

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2016

This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy...

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Changes in bargaining status and intra-plant wage dispersion in Germany : a case of (almost) plus ça change?

Addison, John T.; Kölling, Arnd; Teixeira, Paulino - 2014

Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage inequality. This association holds more or less across-the-board, at least for broad swathes of recent history. That said, the exact contribution of deununionization is a...

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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...

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Job quality in segmented labor markets : the Israeli case

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...

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Sharp teeth or empty mouths? : revisiting the minimum wage bite with sectoral data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013

The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...

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Understanding wage floor setting in industry-level agreements : evidence from France

Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Roux, Sébastien - 2016

This paper examines empirically how industry-level wage floors are set in French industry-level wage agreements and how the national minimum wage (NMW) interacts with industry-level wage bargaining. For this, the authors use a unique dataset containing about 50,000 occupation-specific wage...

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