importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms …' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies for 772 German firms, we document that the majority of firms are willing to … engage in individual wage bargaining. Labor market factors predict firms' strategies better than firm characteristics. Survey …

wages and offer slower and less rewarding careers. Differences in worker sorting account for half of the wage gap while …

the trend towards a more decentralized wage determination. The shift towards decentralized wage bargaining has coincided …

bargaining coverage raises wages and employment for covered employees; (3) a more favorable legal environment increases wages for …This paper examines the effect of the different legal environments for bargaining faced by public employees across the … states on wage and employment outcomes for union and nonunion employees, and also on the extent of bargaining, using cross …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs … higher taxes increase the share of worker-rights clauses while reducing pre-tax wages in unionized firms, consistent with a … substitution effect away from taxed compensation (wages) toward untaxed amenities (worker rights). Further, an exogenous increase …