inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover …

Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by … occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of … wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased, some contracts maintained relative wage differentials constant, some …

-employer bargaining, the Belgian Wage Norm in 1996. We find that average earnings losses over a ten-year period after displacement are 10 …-service sector and white-collar-benefit the most from restricted single-employer bargaining as their earnings fully converge to non … it did not narrow the gender gap in pre-layoff wages. Our results suggest that reduced pay flexibility may help displaced …

real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we formulate a theoretical model of wage bargaining in an open …How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural … wage equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the …

one originating in union-firm bargaining. Under fairly general conditions, we show that wages are less sensitive to local … on the extent to which hourly wages of different groups of workers are sensitive to local labour market conditions. We … unemployment the higher is the bargaining power of the union. In accordance with this theoretical prediction, we find that the …

In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined byindustry-level agreements. In ….The authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey inBelgium to examine how these bargaining … firms and for differences in characteristics between bargaining regimes.Moreover, in centralized industries, rent-sharing is …

unions compress the wage distribution by raising wages of workers in low productivity industries (or low-skilled workers …

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data … minimum wage. Most countries negotiate wages on several levels, the sectoral level still being the most dominant, with an … increasingly important role for bargaining at the firm level. The average length of collective bargaining agreements is found to …

, an employeremployee matched dataset. The results suggest that while a wage bargaining system centred around social … incorporated into the part-time decomposition, the previously observed wage gap is eliminated. -- Gender wage gap ; Wage bargaining …

-level contracts, and individual contracts) on the level and the dispersion of wages. The analysis uses the Salary and Wage Structure … Survey for Lower Saxony, Germany. The empirical results show an increasing dispersion of wages over time in all wage … companies in the other two regimes. The observed increase of average wages between 2001 and 2006 in establishments covered by …