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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017

We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending … on wages. In turn, job titles reflect the average contract in the collective agreement, while the wage cushion offers …

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Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime : Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - 2021

analyze wage distributions for various labor market subgroups by means of kernel density estimation, variance decompositions …, and individual and firm-level wage regressions. Unions' impact through collective and firm-level bargaining mainly works … towards a higher wage level and reduced overall and residual wage dispersion. Yet observed effects are considerably …

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Assessing the impact of wage bargaining and worker preferences on the gender pay gap in Ireland using the national employment survey 2003

McGuinness, Séamus; Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2009

This paper assesses the magnitude and nature of the gender pay gap in Ireland using the National Employment Survey 2003, an employeremployee matched dataset. The results suggest that while a wage bargaining system centred around social partnership was of benefit to females irrespective of their...

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Vacation leave, work hours and wages : new evidence from linked employer-employee data

Fakih, Ali - 2014

wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using individual level data, have revealed that annual …

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The rules of the game : local wage bargaining and the gender pay gap

Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2024

We study how local bargaining institutions affect the within-job gender wage gap among Swedish blue collar workers. Collective agreements with varying degrees of local flexibility tend to cover blue-collar workers across different occupations within the same firm. As a consequence, workers...

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Collective bargaining for women : how unions can create female-friendly jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

measures of firm value. We find no evidence that these gains come at the expense of employment, workers' wages, or firm profits …

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The nature of household labor income risk

Pruitt, Seth; Turner, Nicholas - 2018

What is the nature of labor income risk facing households? We answer this question using detailed administrative data on household earnings from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. By analyzing total household labor earnings as well as each member's earnings, we offer several new findings. One,...

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Monopsony power in the labor market

Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 5, (pp. 761-827). 2024

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The elasticity of taxable labour income in the Netherlands

Jongen, Egbert L. W.; Stoel, Maaike - 2019

We study the elasticity of taxable labour income in the Netherlands. We use a large and rich data set, including both financial and demographic variables, for the period 1999-2005. The 2001 tax reform generates large exogenous variation in marginal tax rates at different segments of the income...

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