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Der Flächentarifvertrag: eine kritische Würdigung aus ökonomischer Sicht
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows … that the importance of industry-level wage bargaining declines in Germany and that one major reason for this development is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428282
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Der Flächentarifvertrag : eine kritische Würdigung aus ökonomischer Sicht
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
Regelungsdichte des FTV kommt unter anderem zum Tragen, wenn bisher tarifgebundene Unternehmen beispielsweise auf Grund einer … häufig selbst als nicht (mehr) tarifgebundene Unternehmen keine Lohnabschlüsse mit ihrem Betriebsrat tätigen. Die …This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443451
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Short-time work extensions
Brinkmann, Christina; Jäger, Simon; Kuhn, Moritz; … - 2024
employment protection effects of STW. Our research designs reveal that STW extensions in Germany did not significantly improve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084151
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Pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : evidence from Austria
Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545528
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Are "fair" wages quantitatively important for business cycle fluctuations in Bulgaria?
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2018
We introduce "fair" wages in a general-equilibrium model where worker's effort is unobservable and investigate whether such a mechanism can quantitatively account for the degree of real wage rigidity in the Bulgarian labor markets, as documented in Lozev, Vladova, and Paskaleva (2011) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974105
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How cyclical is the user cost of labor?
Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024
In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507553
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Why wages don't fall in jobs with incomplete contracts
Fongoni, Marco; Schaefer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2024
We investigate how the incompleteness of an employment contract - discretionary and non-contractible effort - can affect an employer's decision about cutting nominal wages. Using matched employer-employee payroll data from Great Britain, linked to a survey of managers, we find support for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557595
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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation : the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442920
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Great expectations : law, employment contracts, and labor market performance
MacLeod, William Bentley - 2010
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312928
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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2011
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132281