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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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Minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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Opening clauses in collective bargaining agreements : more flexibility to save jobs?

Brändle, Tobias; Heinbach, Wolf Dieter - 2010

Collective bargaining agreements have been said to decrease deployment since the work of Calmfors and Driffill (1988). We investigate empirically whether opening clauses, flexible elements that have been introduced to reduce the decline in coverage, can indeed minimise this effect and increase...

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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Feil, Michael - 2008

-separierbare, mehrstufige CES-Funktionen abgebildet. Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen in den Arbeitsmarktsegmenten mit geringer und mittlerer … deutlichen Steuerausfällen führt. Die Konsequenzen eines Übergangs von kollektiven Lohnverhandlungen auf einen Arbeitsmarkt … Lohnverhandlungen. -- Applied general equilibrium model ; microsimulation ; discrete working time choice ; heterogeneous labour markets …

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Hemlock for policy response : monetary policy, exchange rates and labour unions in SEE and CIS during the crisis

Jovanovic, Branimir; Petreski, Marjan - 2012

The objective of this paper is to assess whether the level of unionization and the rigidity of the exchange rate affected wages and monetary policy in SEE and CIS during the ongoing economic crisis. Towards that end, a New Keynesian model with price and wage rigidities is used. The model is...

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Increased price markup from union coordination : OECD panel evidence

Bjørnstad, Roger; Kalstad, Kjartan Øren - 2010

Although coordination of wage bargaining probably affects entry barriers and competition in product markets, research on price determination has typically not considered such factors. In this paper the price markup depends on coordination and is estimated on a panel of 15 OECD countries. The...

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Trade, wages, and collective bargaining : evidence from France

Carluccio, Juan; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2015

We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports...

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Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses two complementary approaches to estimate the effect of right-to-work (RTW) laws on wages and unionization rates. The first approach uses an event study design to analyze the impact of the adoption of RTW laws in five U.S. states since 2011. The second approach relies on a...

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The ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation

Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi; Papps, Kerry L. - 2022

This paper examines the ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation using a sudden COVID-19-induced temporary suspension to legislation in the UK. Compared to organisations that did not report during the suspension year, reporting organisations have a 6% lower gender pay gap a year...

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Investment under company-level pacts

Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Hübler, Olaf - 2013

To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments. In order to reduce wage costs company-specific deviations from industry-level wage contracts are concluded. Company-level pacts between the management and the works council...

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