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Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2022

While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage, the overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the membership in employers' associations and the coverage...

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Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2014

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 ﾖ driven not only by...

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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris - 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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Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime : Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - 2021

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...

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Collective Bargaining for Women : How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its … bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers choose their union, permitting a difference-in-differences design to study …

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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

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

This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The … determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to … provide summary estimates of the union wage gap for different ranges of union density. Since these estimates fully reflect the …

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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …

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The One Constant : A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?

Brändle, Tobias - 2018

A large number of articles have analysed 'the one constant' in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo-Saxon countries. We investigate whether a...

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Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

varies greatly by firm size, industry and union density. We show that the design of the PRP scheme – in terms of number and …

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No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining

Hijzen, Alexander - 2016

In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the same sector. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions...

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