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 …

Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: productivity and investments are positively … correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data … from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …