How collective contracts and works councils reduce the gender wage gap

"The gender wage gap in Germany is smaller in firms covered by collective contracts or having a works council, partly because these institutions are associated with lower unobserved productivity differences and less wage discrimination, partly because they compress the distribution of wage residuals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Year of publication:	2004-12-15
Authors:	Gartner, Hermann ; Stephan, Gesine
Institutions:	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
Subject:	Lohnunterschied \| Männer \| Frauen \| geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren \| Tarifvertrag - Auswirkungen \| Betriebsrat - Auswirkungen \| Lohndifferenzierung \| Lohndiskriminierung \| IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IAB Discussion Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series IAB Discussion Paper Number 072004 13 pages
Classification:	J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives Structure, and Effects ; J71 - Discrimination
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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