Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany

by Boris Hirsch and Steffen Mueller

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective agreements and in firms with a works council, holding constant firm performance. RIF regressions show that premia are less dispersed among covered firms but more dispersed among firms with a works council. Hence, deunionization is the only among the suspects investigated that contributes to explaining the marked rise in the premia dispersion over time.

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Year of publication:	[February 2018]
Authors:	Hirsch, Boris ; Müller, Steffen
Publisher:	Lüneburg : Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Subject:	firm wage premium \| industrial relations \| trade unions \| works councils \| bargaining power \| rent sharing \| wage inequality \| Germany \| Deutschland \| Arbeitsbeziehungen \| Employment relations \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Tarifverhandlungen \| Collective bargaining \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Gewerkschaft \| Trade union \| Betriebsrat \| Works council \| Lohnbildung \| Wage setting

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 41 Seiten)
Series:	University of Lüneburg Working paper series in economics. - Lüneburg : Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre, ISSN 1860-5508, ZDB-ID 2238516-2. - Vol. no. 380 (February 2018)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/194185 [Handle]
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J52 - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation ; J53 - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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