We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...

Der Lohn berührt elementar das Leben der von ihm Abhängigen. Angesichts grosser Unterschiede zwischen West und Ost, Männern und Frauen, Stamm- und Leiharbeitern, einheimischen und ausländischen Arbeitskräften fragen sich viele, ob die Löhne gerecht sind. Was ist aber ein gerechter Lohn? In...

This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...

A simple model of wage setting and restructuring predicts that the average wage level in a regional labour market in Polen, among other factors, will be negatively related to the unemployment rate and positively related to the degree of regional restructuring. As in Blanchflower and Oswald...