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Firm-level pay agreements and within-firm wage inequalities : evidence across Europe

Cirillo, Valeria; Sostero, Matteo; Tamagni, Federico - 2019

This article investigates the relation linking single-employer bargaining and within-firm wage dispersion - a significant driver of overall wage inequality. The study considers six European economies (Belgium, Spain, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and the UK), featuring different collective...

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The dog that barks doesn’t bite : coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy

Garnero, Andrea - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-24

This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance with sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that wage floors in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not...

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Labour market and collective bargaining in Iceland : sharing the spoils without spoiling the shares

Sila, Urban - 2017

Iceland has high living standards, low poverty, high inclusiveness and one of the most sustainable pension systems. It is the most highly unionised country in the OECD and, in the past, successful social pacts have protected the lowest paid workers during crises, and on occasion helped fight...

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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

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Assessing the impact of wage bargaining and worker preferences on the gender pay gap in Ireland using the national employment survey 2003

McGuinness, Séamus; Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2009

relative position of part-time females only. Trade union membership was associated with a widening gender pay gap in the full …

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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 levels of average labour costs and within firm wage dispersion in private sector companies in Ireland. The results show that while centralised bargaining reduced labour costs...

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Multinational companies and labour relations in Hungary: between home country - host country effects and global tendencies

Koltay, Jenő - 2010

This paper will approach the role of multinational companies (MNCs) in shaping Hungarian labour relations in a broader context. Departing from an overview of macroeconomic developments of the last two decades, all levels and aspects of labour relations, actors, strategies, institutions and...

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Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2012

varies greatly by firm size, industry and union density. We show that the design of the PRP scheme - in terms of number and …

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A note on the impact of procedures in strike models : the case of bargaining structure

Goerke, Laszlo - 1997

For a two-period screening model of strikes it is shown that joint bargaining instead of enterprise negotiations lowers wages and implies more strikes. These results hold irrespective of the party possessing private information. The sensitivity of strike models to procedural assumptions thus...

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Transnational trade union cooperation in the Nordic countries

Larsson, Bengt; Bengtsson, Mattias; Lovén Seldén, Kristina - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 1, pp. 32-48

regarding transnational union cooperation and union action, but also that there is greater diversity between sectors than …

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