This paper examines the relationship between labour market concentration and wage inequality using global survey data for the period 2006-2022. The results show that higher labour market concentration is associated with higher wage inequality, especially in the top half of the wage distribution....

Collective bargaining has a marginal and steadily diminishing role in employment regulation in Hungary. Flaws in the legal framework are certainly among the main reasons behind low and decreasing coverage. In the light of ILO standards and comparative national examples, this article analyses the...

Das Jahr 2025 war ein ruhiges Tarifjahr. Insgesamt fanden in lediglich zwölf der inzwischen 22 vom IW-Tarifmonitoring erfassten Branchen Tarifverhandlungen statt. Dabei wurden 15 Tarifverhandlungen geführt oder gestartet, allein neun im ersten Halbjahr. Im zweiten Halbjahr 2025 wurde in der...

We analyze how value added taxes (VATs) affect labor market outcomes (firms' employee costs, wages, hours worked, employment). While VATs are designed to tax consumption, they are levied at the firm level, which creates potential spillovers to labor markets. We hypothesize that VATs affect wages...