This article analyzes wage changes with an unbalanced panel from the Spanish Collective Bargaining in Large Firms survey. Central to the analysis are the joint determination of strike and wage outcomes and, in particular, the estimation of the slope of the wage concession curve. The author...

In this paper we estimate equations for deserving or "true disability indicator" and receiv- ing disability benefits to evaluate the award error as the difference between both probabilities using survey data from Spain. As expected award errors are not randomly distributed across the population....

An endogenous switching model of ex ante wage changes under indexed and nonindexed settlements is estimated for the Spanish manufacturing sector using collective bargaining firm data for the 1984-91 period. The likelihood of indexing the settlement is higher for nationwide unions than for other...