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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
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 – driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946241
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A sequential decomposition of the drop in collective bargaining coverage
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2015
Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532456
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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation : the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be replaced by a more decentralized system. This paper provides a critical assessment of the current wage bargaining institutions and reexamines the case for a more decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442920
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Discrete working time choice in an applied general equilibrium model
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001945547
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728424
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Union density and varieties of coverage : the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2008
coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional … setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union power as measured by net union density (NUD) in a labor market segment … regressions, this is the first empirical paper which simultaneously analyzes these three dimensions of union influence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650930
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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions
Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006
Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314702
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Firm heterogeneity and wages under different bargaining regimes : does a centralised union care for low-productivity firms?
Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 2009
This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry under different wage setting structures. To derive testable hypotheses, we set up a theoretical model that analyses the sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805643
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Wage insurance within German firms : do institutions matter?
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against transitory and permanent firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the amount of wage insurance depends on the nature of industrial relations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873008
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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany
Boeters, Stefan - 2010
Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969884