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Dark half: decentralized bargaining and well-being at work
Maczulskij, Terhi; Haapanen, Mika; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2021
separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual … employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects …. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604371
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Dark half: decentralized bargaining and well-being at work
Maczulskij, Terhi; Haapanen, Mika; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2021
separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual … employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects …. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419080
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Working Time in a Model of Decentralized Wage-Hours Negotiation
Contensou, Francois; Vranceanu, Radu - 1999
This text develops a bargaining trade union model which includes working time and wages in the set of negotiated variables, the "right to manage" of the firm being limited to employment decision. The model allows for time varying effectiveness of workers and fixed costs of labor and considers a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195594
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Organised decentralisation of collective bargaining : case studies of Germany, Netherlands, and Denmark
Ibsen, Christian Lyhne; Keune, Maarten - 2018
This paper investigates different varieties of so called organised decentralisation of collective bargaining in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. Organised decentralisation occurs within the framework of sector agreements, which explicitly allow determination of terms and conditions at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975612
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Decentralisation of collective bargaining : a path to productivity?
Aglio, Daniele; Di Mauro, Filippo - 2020
Productivity developments have been rather divergent across EU countries and particularly between Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and elsewhere in the continent (non-CEE). How is such phenomenon related to wage bargaining institutions? Starting from the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) shock, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312336
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How has Decentralized Democracy Impacted on the Socioeconomic Well-Being of Workers and the General Public in Indonesia
Jameaba, Muyanja-Ssenyonga - 2013
, observance of human and political rights, decentralization of power and authority to deliver public services to regional … finances of most political parties, ‘money’ politics, and small political party membership. The huge cost of decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153509
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The Decentralization of Minimum Wage Setting in Russia Economies
Lukiyanova, Anna - 2015
In this paper, we study the minimum wage reform in Russia, which aimed to decentralize the fixing of the minimum wage and to increase the involvement of social partners in this process. The old system of the minimum wage setting was based on a single nation-wide minimum wage, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026258
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The Strategic Decentralization of Recruiting
Chen, Yi; Jungbauer, Thomas - 2021
We propose a model of strategic delegation in professional labor markets with heterogeneous workers. A big firm, competing with fringe firms, decides whether to exercise its market power to suppress wages. Alternatively, it may choose to delegate hiring to agents (divisions), thereby committing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250065
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Decentralisation of bargaining and manufacturing employment : Sweden 1970-1996
Forslund, Anders; Lindh, Thomas - 2004
Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment fell by more than 20 %. The decentralisation of wage bargaining that started in 1983 may have contributed to this by making employment more shock sensitive or by increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572056
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Decentralization of wage determination : evidence from a national teacher reform
Willén, Alexander - 2019
Despite a global trend of wage decentralization over the past 30 years, we know very little about the labor market … decentralization. The paper presents three sets of empirical results. First, I show that the reform significantly changed the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028540