of earnings. We find large selection effects both in terms of worker and firm unobserved components of wages. The …

orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for … 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining …