to study the effects of collective bargaining coverage on earnings using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 … empirical analysis further suggests that, on net, unions have an equalizing effect on the distribution of wages. …

Two-tier bargaining structures, in which plant-level wage negotiations supplement industry-level wage setting, are … of firms to collective bargaining, and do not seem to improve either microeconomic and macroeconomic adjustment to shocks. …

-employer bargaining, the Belgian Wage Norm in 1996. We find that average earnings losses over a ten-year period after displacement are 10 …-service sector and white-collar-benefit the most from restricted single-employer bargaining as their earnings fully converge to non … it did not narrow the gender gap in pre-layoff wages. Our results suggest that reduced pay flexibility may help displaced …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

This paper studies collective bargaining and industry wage levels using microdata and quantile regression techniques …

(GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study … continually declined in recent years. The decline in union density and coverage is likely to decrease the collective bargaining … strength of unions. It is against this background that our study seeks to examine the effect of unions' bargaining (proxied by …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …