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Estimating the wage premium of collective wage contracts: Evidence from longitudinal linked employer-employee data

Guertzgen, Nicole - 2012

Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new evidence on the wage premium of collective bargaining contracts. In contrast to previous studies, we seek to assess the extent to which differences in wages between workers in covered and...

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Wage Insurance within German Firms : Do Institutions Matter?

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against transitory and permanent firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the amount of wage insurance depends on the nature of industrial relations....

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Employment and wage effects of extending collective bargaining agreements : extending provisions of collective contracts to all workers in an industry or region may lead to employm...

Villanueva, Ernesto - 2015

In many countries, the minimum wages and working conditions set in collective bargaining contracts negotiated by a limited set of employers and unions are subsequently extended to all the employees in an industry. Those extensions ensure common working conditions within the industry, limit wage...

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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2022

This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999–2016, we...

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Revisiting the Impact of Union Structures on Wages - Integrating Different Dimensions of Centralisation

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008

In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages. In particular, two dimensions along which centralisation may occur, namely the professional and firm line, are integrated into one modelling framework. It will be shown that,...

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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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Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-Age Model : Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Opening Clauses in Collective Bargaining Agreements : More Flexibility to Save Jobs?

Brändle, Tobias - 2014

This paper analyses the impact of opening clauses in German collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) on job flows. Opening clauses should provide firms with more flexibility in economic crises. Therefore, firms operating under a CBA with opening clauses are expected to have lower job turnover, in...

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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?

Lachowska, Marta - 2013

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find another job as good as the present one, and how easy it would be for an employer to replace an employee. First, using high-quality data, I study the correlates of these two...

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