The response of human capital accumulation to changes in the anticipated returns to schooling determines the type of skills supplied to the labor market, the productivity of future cohorts, and the evolution of inequality. Unlike the US, the UK or Germany, Spain has experienced since 1995 a drop...

This paper applies a set of unit root and cointegration tests with non-linear error-correction mechanisms to a subset of the OECD countries to investigate the empirical conclusions of some of the labor market models in the literature. I generally find that the unemployment rate, productivity,...

This paper analyzes the implications of right-to-manage wage bargaining between a producers’ syndicate and a workers’ union representing finite numbers of identical members in a monetary macroeconomic model of the AS–AD type with government activity. At given prices and price expectations,...

Agenda Monti is the electoral programme of the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti for the next national election, due in 2013 spring. In this paper we discuss a specific issue of this Agenda: Performance Related Pay. We argue that the concept of flexible wage through firm level bargaining is a...

Why do firms and workers bargain individually or collectively? I test the effect of product market competition and rents with German establishment data. Against intuition, competition and rents have opposite effects. Competition has a u-shaped effect on the probability of collective bargaining....

Einzelne Berufsverbaende haben in den letzten Jahren eigenstaendige Tarifvertraege erkaempft. Damit sind sie in einen tarifpolitischen UEberbietungswettbewerb mit den etablierten DGB-Gewerkschaften eingetreten. Am Beispiel von Vereinigung Cockpit, Marburger Bund und GDL wird gezeigt, dass der...

Mit Blick auf den rasanten Wandel von Arbeitsanforderungen gewinnt die berufliche Weiterbildung auch in der Tarifpolitik an Gewicht. Nach langem Vorlauf mit Tarifregelungen in kleineren Branchen und einzelnen Tarifregionen wurden seit der Jahrtausendwende erstmals auch in grossen Branchen...

We discuss the main content of the first national labour contract signed by trade unions and employers associations after the national agreement on productivity signed in Italy in November 2012. It is clear the effect of that agreement: trade unions, with the exception of the largest...