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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage : The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - 2021

coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional … setup suggests to distinguish explicitly between the effects of union power as measured by net union density (NUD) in a … dimensions of union influence on the structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by …

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

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2021

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...

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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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Unions and investment in intangible capital : when workers and firms cannot commit to long-term contracts and capital investments are sunk, union power can reduce investment

Sulis, Giovanni - 2015

Although coverage of collective bargaining agreements has been declining for decades in most countries, it is still extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms' incentives to invest in capital, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk...

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Upward nominal wage rigidity

Guimarães, Paulo; Martins, Fernando; Portugal, Pedro - 2017

In Portugal, as in many other countries in continental Europe, the collective wage agreements between trade unions and employer associations that define wage floors for specific job titles are systematically extended to the whole industry. This means that many firms are obliged to increase the...

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The dog that barks doesn't bite : coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy

Garnero, Andrea - 2017

This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance to sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that minimum wages in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not...

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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and trust : evidence from cross-country data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

union based entities on the other. The role of unionism is also central to this inquiry, not only with respect to the degree … to which workplace representation is union dominated but also and more familiarly perhaps through workplace union density … reduced strike activity. However, any such effect is sensitive in particular to the union status of work councilors and time …

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No extension without representation? : evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - 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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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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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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