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This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major … workers experienced a substantial and highly persistent increase in the probability of non-employment but only if they were …
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common working conditions within the industry, limit wage inequality, and reduce gender wage gaps. However, several studies … suggest that those benefits come at the cost of reduced employment levels, especially during recessions. The income losses of …
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This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of …, employment responses vary across recessions. In the low-inflation recession of 2009, job losses are highly persistent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471360
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and … introducing or abandoning collective agreements or works councils affects the gender pay gap. This result holds at the mean and … along the distribution, challenging the stylized fact that unions and works councils dampen the gender pay gap. …
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Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and … introducing or abandoning collective agreements or works councils affects the gender pay gap. This result holds at the mean and … along the distribution, challenging the stylized fact that unions and works councils dampen the gender pay gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257376
This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major … experienced a substantial and highly persistent increase in the probability of non-employment, but only if they were covered by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525726
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Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879075
Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872709
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664995