Vielfach wird in der öffentlichen Diskussion ein zumindest annähernd existenzsichernder Mindestlohn von 12 Euro gefordert. 2017 haben etwa 11 Mio. Beschäftigte zu einem Stundenlohn von weniger als 12 Euro gearbeitet. Das betrifft insbesondere geringfügig Beschäftigte, aber auch...

Seit der Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns erhalten Berichte zu dessen Umsetzung und Einhaltung eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit. Bisher erschienene Studien zeigten dabei kein eindeutiges Bild über den Umfang der Mindestlohn-Umgehungen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Gründe für die...

The EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) have been experiencing increasing labour shortages, which only briefly subsided in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ongoing demographic decline suggests that labour shortages will only get stronger over time. As a result, the...

The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...

In jüngerer Vergangenheit gelang es einigen Berufsgruppen – begünstigt durch die berufsständische Gliederung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes – eine soziale Schließung zu betreiben sowie unterstützt durch Berufsgewerkschaften eigenständig tarifpolitisch zu agieren und hohe Gehaltszuwächse...

This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage increases and wage dispersion in Finland. We use linked employer-employee panel data for the 2005-2013 period, which includes major changes in bargaining systems and economic...

This paper establishes theoretical and empirical linkages between union wage setting and the structure of the wage distribution. Theoretically, we identify conditions under which a right-to-manage model implies compression of the wage distribution in the union sector relative to the nonunion...

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001,this paper provides a comprehensive picture of the wage structure in three wage-settingregimes prevalent in the German system of industrial relations...

An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity andsignificant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility ofreal as well as nominal wage...