firms productivity levels within the industry. Less pronounced differences in productivity levels make it easier to design … collective wage contracts that are accepted by a wider range of firms within an industry. Higher dispersion in productivity … likely to decrease. We measure correlations between productivity variation and collective bargaining coverage in various …

human capital and productivity improvements. While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …