by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi … in Belgium and Denmark, single-employer bargaining is used to adapt pay to the specific needs of the firm while, in Spain …-employer bargaining, single-employer bargaining has a positive effect both on wage levels and on wage dispersion in Belgium and in Denmark …

sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we …

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … ?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …

authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey in Belgium to examine how these bargaining …

, thereby protecting workers against firm-specific risks. Indeed, in Denmark, workers bear less firm-specific risk than workers …