Tarifverhandlungen bei freiem Marktzutritt auf die Produktivität und den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg von heterogenen Firmen auswirken … überlebender Firmen. Stattdessen begünstigen dezentrale Tarifverhandlungen weniger produktive Firmen. Sind die Firmen … internationalem Wettbewerb ausgesetzt, so können auch zentrale Tarifverhandlungen die Produktivität reduzieren. Der vierte Beitrag …

Recession. Downward wage (growth) rigidity is due to the fact that sector-level collective agreements in Spain are automatically … dates of bargaining periods of all sector-level contracts in Spain, we find that agreements reached after the fall of Lehman …

recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill-specific minimum …

liberalization and adhesion to the European Union. However, even today, these economies, and in particular Portugal, do not rival … country faced in the process of adopting new technologies. The numerical experiments suggest that Spain had consistently lower … barriers than Portugal and that the gap has been increasing since the establishment of the European Single Market. The last …

sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International …