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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131008
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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Wage inequality and skill asymmetries
Skott, Peter; Auerbach, Paul Robert - 2004
asymmetry implies that an adverse, skill-neutral shock to aggregate employment may cause an increase in wage inequality, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527123
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Collectively bargained wages and female earnings : evidence from Swedish local governments
Bustos, Emil - 2024
This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers … using administrative data on Swedish workers, covering their occupation, income, and collective bargaining coverage. I do a … similar employment and income levels before the agreement was reached. Assistant nurses see higher increases in labor income …
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The impact of wage bargaining regime on firm-level competitiveness and wage inequality : the case of Ireland
McGuinness, Séamus (contributor); Kelly, Elish (contributor) - 2008
This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset to analyse the impact of institutional wage bargaining regimes on … while centralised bargaining reduced labour costs within both the indigenous and foreign-owned sectors, the relative … multinational companies that choose to locate in countries implementing a centralised bargaining system. Furthermore, the results …
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Der Einfluss des Lohnsetzungsregimes auf das geschlechtsspezifische Lohndifferenzial
Teschner, Tatjana - 2009
Der Beitrag untersucht den Einfluss von Flächentarifverträgen und individuellen Lohnvereinbarungen auf das geschlechtsspezifische Lohndifferenzial und seine Veränderung im Zeitablauf auf Basis der Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung – ab 2006: Verdienststrukturerhebung – für Niedersachsen....
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959934
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Perverse effects of two-tier wage bargaining structures : two-tier wage bargaining fails to link wages more closely to productivity and increases allocative inefficiencies
Boeri, Tito - 2015
need for collective bargaining reform. Most countries affected by the euro debt crisis have two-tier bargaining structures … in which plant-level bargaining supplements national or industrywide (multi-employer) agreements, taking the pay …
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Unions and collective bargaining in the wake of the Great Recession
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015
nominal wage rigidity" in more normal times) rather than the immediate expression of a crisis in collective bargaining per se. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502795