This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We … bargaining versus wage posting in the labor market. We interpret the evidence within a model where workers facing hours … aggregate, wage bargaining appears to be a limited determinant of wage setting. The estimated wage response to improved outside …

In many bargaining situations, the distribution of seats or voting weights does not accurately reflect bargaining power … at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in …

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 …

restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

collective bargaining, existence of a works council, and union density - within a four-equation model. We find an insignificant …