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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949616
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To bind or not to bind collectively? : decomposition of bargained wage differences using counterfactual distributions
Heinbach, Wolf Dieter (contributor);  … - 2007
Collective bargaining agreements still play an important role in the German wage setting system. Both existing theoretical and empirical studies find that collective bargaining leads to higher wages compared to individually agreed ones. However, the impact of collective bargaining on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749962
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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646689
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Do labour market institutions matter? : micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631738
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773080
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Do Labor Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Görg, Holger - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labor market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728525
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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2007
Centralized wage setting arrangements compress wage differentials along many dimensions, but how do they affect employment structure? To address this issue, we relate the evolution of U.S.-Swedish differences in the industry distribution of employment to relative wages between and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049322
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Wage Differentials Across Sectors in Europe : An East-West Comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2021
This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324785
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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942047
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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942171