) limited scope for action of second level bargaining in determining both wages and work organization. The effectiveness of tax …Italy is not immune from the long term process towards greater bargaining decentralization under way in Western Europe … attempted to encourage this process in recent years, without altering the relative importance of different levels of bargaining …

theoretical and empirical studies find that collective bargaining leads to higher wages compared to individually agreed ones … collectively and individually agreed wages using a Machado/Mata (2005) decomposition type technique. -- collective bargaining …Collective bargaining agreements still play an important role in the German wage setting system. Both existing …

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural … factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages … and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we formulate a theoretical model of wage bargaining in an open economy and …

impact of the regime of collective bargaining on wages in the manufacturing sector of three countries that are characterized … by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi …-employer bargaining, single-employer bargaining has a positive effect both on wage levels and on wage dispersion in Belgium and in Denmark …

Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the …

resulting change in relative labor demand impacts wage bargaining in the unionized sector, which, in turn, has a dampening … effect on the Stolper-Samuelson effect. Moreover, wages of unionized workers are even less responsive to trade liberalization …. Through traditional mandated-wages regressions, we show that skilled-wage differentials changes were less pronounced among …

bargaining features affect the extent of rent-sharing. Their results show that there is substantially more rent-sharing in … and firms and for differences in characteristics between bargaining regimes. Moreover, in centralised industries, rent …, within decentralised industries, both firm-specific and industry-wide bargaining generate rent-sharing to the same extent …

This paper presents information on wage-bargaining institutions, collected for 23 European countries, plus the US and … national 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 individual firm level. The average length of collective bargaining …

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 …