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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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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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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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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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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities in Collective Bargaining Agreements

Christofides, Louis N. - 2007

An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity and significant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility of real as well as nominal wage...

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Union Membership and Collective Bargaining : Trends and Determinants

Schnabel, Claus - 2020

This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and … the sectoral structure of the economy and the composition of the workforce have played a role, their contribution to union … in various parts of the world poses a challenge to union recruitment. Union density and bargaining coverage are related …

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Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation : New Results from Mixed Methods

Berton, Fabio - 2019

Among the steps to improve a country's competitiveness, several commentators and international institutions include a general emphasis on deregulation and decentralization of industrial relations. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by studying whether and how firm-level unionism and...

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Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain : Evidence from the Metalworking Industry

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2020

In several OECD countries employer federations and unions fix skill-specific wage floors for all workers in an industry. One view of those "explicit" contracts argues that the prevailing wage structure reflects the labor market conditions back at the time when those contracts were bargained,...

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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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On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Feicht, Robert - 2015

We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all treatments a proposer has to divide a pie among herself and two groups of three recipients each. She cannot discriminate within, but across groups. A committee with representatives...

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