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Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work

Maczulskij, Terhi; Haapanen, Mika; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2021

separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual … employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects …. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or …

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Heterogeneous Impacts of the Decentralization of Collective Bargaining

Kauhanen, Antti; Maczulskij, Terhi; Riukula, Krista - 2020

This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage …-collar employees. Decentralization also affects the incidence of wage increases differently for blue- and white-collar employees. We … in local negotiations affects the decentralization outcomes. …

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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants

Schnabel, Claus - 2020

place. Bargaining coverage is usually high and stable in countries with multi-employer bargaining, and the decentralization …

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30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions

Martins, Pedro S. - 2014

Several countries extend collective bargaining agreements to entire sectors, therefore binding non-subscriber workers and employers. These extensions may address coordination issues but may also distort competition by imposing sector-specific minimum wages and other work conditions that are not...

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30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

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Wages and the bargaining regime under multi-level bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, François - 2006

Using a unique harmonized matched employer-employee dataset (European Structure of Earnings Survey, 1995), we study the 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,...

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly - driven not only by...

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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...

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