Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - 2019
reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … have similar geographical differences in firm productivity - with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …