Search Results - subject_exact:"Collective bargaining"

Regulating temporary agency work through collective bargaining : insights from the Slovenian experience

Krapež, Katarina - 2026

This article examines whether collective bargaining in Slovenia meaningfully supplements the statutory regulation of temporary agency work (TAW). Using a qualitative socio-legal case-study design, it combines targeted doctrinal analysis of the EU and Slovenian legal framework with qualitative...

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The impact of labour policy on productivity and wages in South Africa : a review of the literature

Mlatsheni, Cecil - 2026

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Industrial relations and working from home in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic

Goerke, Laszlo; Grabka, Markus M.; Hilbert, Viola; … - 2026

We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP-CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining...

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Climate change vulnerability and the politics of production on Swiss construction sites

Schaupp, Simon; Meier, Jan - 2026

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Unions and employers' associations in Germany: A survey of their membership, density and bargaining coverage

Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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Unions and employers' associations in Germany : a survey of their membership, density and bargaining coverage

Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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Unions and employers' associations in Germany: A survey of their membership, density and bargaining coverage

Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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Unions and Employers' Associations in Germany: A Survey of Their Membership, Density and Bargaining Coverage

Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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Unions and employers' associations in Germany : a survey of their membership, density and bargaining coverage

Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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Unions and employers' associations in Germany : a survey of their membership, density and bargaining coverage

Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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The political consequences of controversial education reform : lessons from Wisconsin's Act 10

Biasi, Barbara; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2025

Public service reforms often provoke political backlash. Can they also yield political benefits for the politicians who champion them? We study a Wisconsin law that weakened teachers' unions and liberalized pay, prompting mass protests. Exploiting its staggered implementation across school...

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The political consequences of controversial education reform : lessons from Wisconsin’s Act 10

Biasi, Barbara; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2025

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The political consequences of controversial education reform : lessons from wisconsin’s act 10

Biasi, Barbara; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2025

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A tale of two platforms : habitus as the structuring force of gig workers' experience

Mommadova, Yana - 2025

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The value of worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for use in empirical economic analysis. Applying unsupervised text-as-data algorithms to a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015, we parse legal...

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The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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The value of worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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Rigid yet resilient : firms' margins of adjustment to demand shocks in regulated labour markets

Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2025

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Rigid yet resilient : firms' margins of adjustment to demand shocks in regulated labour markets

Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2025

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Workers on the front line of climate change : re-politicizing trade union climate action

Crawford, Ben; Whyte, David - 2025

Considering that the transition to a low-carbon economy will not be secured by mutual agreement but requires coordinated industrial organizing, this article builds upon eco-socialist critiques to identify the concrete dimensions of the underlying solidarity between workers and the rest of nature...

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Beyond collective agreements : the rise of the wage cushion in Germany

Rieder, André; Schnabel, Claus - 2025

Representative establishment data reveal that over 60 percent of German plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreements, creating a wage cushion between actual and contractual wages. While collective bargaining coverage has fallen over time, the...

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Beyond collective agreements : the rise of the wage cushion in Germany

Rieder, André; Schnabel, Claus - 2025

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Bargaining power and wages : collective wage agreements and union membership in Germany

Höne, Sarah; Rehm, Miriam - 2025

This paper investigates whether workers' bargaining power, which extends beyond union membership to collective wage agreements in Germany, affects the level and distribution of wages at the regional level. We conduct fixed-effect regression analysis and a DFL decomposition on SOEP data from 2014...

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Vertical new knowledge transfer and the revival of multi-employer collective bargaining

Andersen, Søren Kaj; Wright, Chris F. - 2025

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Trade union membership and bonus payments : German survey evidence

Clemens, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - 2025

This study provides the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and non-performance-oriented bonuses. We expect a positive impact of union membership because members benefit from special entitlements, increased bargaining power and informational...

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Contractual minimum wages and collective bargaining : Italian evidence from forty years of data

Fanfani, Bernardo - 2025

This study documents the evolution of minimum wages bargained in Italian private sector collective contracts over a forty-year period (1983-2023). Minimum wages have grown in real levels over the last three decades, particularly among high-skilled occupations, but this growth has been partially...

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Contractual Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining: Italian Evidence from Forty Years of Data

Fanfani, Bernardo - 2025

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Pay clauses in public procurement : the wage impact of collective bargaining compliance laws in Germany

Pyka, Vinzenz - 2025

Using administrative data from Germany, this study provides first evidence on the wage effects of collective bargaining compliance laws. These laws require establishments receiving public contracts to pay wages set by a representative collective agreement, even if they are not formally bound by...

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Pay clauses in public procurement: The wage impact of collective bargaining compliance laws in Germany

Pyka, Vinzenz - 2025

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Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? : comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic

Strigén, Jakob; Nieuwenhuis, Rense; Gerven, Minna van; … - 2025

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Usages of "soft" EU labour law : the implementation of the Minimum Wage Directive

Schreurs, Sven - 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025 - Original version: March 2025, this version: October 2025

Collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) specify the contractual rights of unionized workers, but their full legal content has not yet been analyzed by economists. This paper develops novel natural language methods to analyze the empirical determinants and economic value of these rights using a...

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

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Worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025 - Updated 28 October 2025

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Collective bargaining and collective agreements in Serbia's private sector

2025

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Bargaining on the front line : what role did collective bargaining play in protecting/advancing the interests of front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Rubery, Jill; Távora, Isabel; Winton, Abbie; Herman, Eva; … - 2025

Drawing on 12 case studies across 10 countries of how trade unions and collective bargaining institutions supported front-line workers in healthcare, social care and food retail, this article finds that pre-existing or new collective bargaining or social dialogue forums provided important...

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The incomplete leap : on the transition from union registration to the first collective agreement

Ramos, Vincent Jerald; Suguitan, Edgar Antonio - 2025

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Creating an entrepreneurs' movement : SME associations as political actors in late twentieth-century Finland

Jensen-Eriksen, Niklas - 2025

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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth : the case of Italian collective bargaining

Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2025

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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth : the case of Italian collective bargaining

Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021

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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: the case of Italian collective bargaining

Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021

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Collective bargaining networks and the propagation of shocks

Hermo, Santiago - 2025

How does collective bargaining shape the labor market response to economic shocks? I use novel Argentine administrative data to uncover the network of firms linked by collective bargaining and show that positive product-demand shocks to firms within a bargaining unit raise wages at other...

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Employer discretion : the role of collective agreements in the liberalization of industrial relations

Boumans, Saskia - 2024

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Unions and collective bargaining : the influence on wages, employment and firm survival

Brändle, Tobias - 2024

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and firm survival, especially in industrialised countries, and where they are traditionally strong. Their impact depends on the institutional role unions (can) play in different...

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Unions and Collective Bargaining: The Influence on Wages, Employment and Firm Survival

Brändle, Tobias - 2024

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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2025

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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2024

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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2022

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Platform work meets flexicurity : a comparison between Danish and Dutch social partners' responses to the question of platform workers' contract classification

Marenco, Matteo - 2024

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Organisational justice, employee representation, and firm performance

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2024

Empirical studies find that firms with employee representation have a higher productivity than firms without employee representation. The exact mechanisms for this consistent finding remain unclear, however. A frequent theoretical argument postulates that employee representation provides a...

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

Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2025

To study how local bargaining institutions affect within-job gender wage gaps, we exploit the fact that most Swedish firms tend to have one collective agreement covering all their bluecollar workers. This implies that workers performing the same tasks in different firms are covered by different...

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

Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2024

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Wage cyclicality and labour market institutions

Pereira, João Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...

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Wage cyclicality and labour market institutions

Pereira, João Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024 - This version: 29 July 2024

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Slouching towards decentralization : an equilibrium approach for collective bargaining

Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

Although European institutions and national governments have long pushed for a more decentralized wage bargaining structure, in some countries company or establishment-level negotiations struggle to take place. This paper offers an interpretation for that based on workers' optimal choices in an...

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Slouching Towards Decentralization. An Equilibrium Approach for Collective Bargaining.

Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

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Collective bargaining about corporate social responsibility

Goerke, Laszlo; Paulus, Nora - 2024

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Collective bargaining about corporate social responsibility

Goerke, Laszlo; Paulus, Nora - 2024

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Industrial relations and firm-level innovation : a comparative analysis of establishment data in Germany and Italy

Anzoli, Guendalina; Benassi, Chiara; Cetrulo, Armanda - 2024

A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This points to the importance of "contextualized" theorizing...

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Offshoring and the decline of unions

Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024

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Offshoring and the decline of unions

Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024

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A just transition for auto workers? : negotiating the electric vehicle transition in Germany and North America

Dupuis, Mathieu; Greer, Ian; Kirsch, Anja; Lechowski, … - 2024

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Introduction to the special issue : conflict and coordination in the cost-of-living crisis

Tassinari, Arianna; Di Carlo, Donato; Ibsen, Christian Lyhne - 2024

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Shielding competitiveness : Germany's wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective

Höpner, Martin; Di Carlo, Donato; Hassel, Anke - 2024

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The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia

Ibsen, Christian Lyhne; Alsos, Kristin; Andersen, Søren Kaj - 2024

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Climate change and the labour process : the case of construction work

Schaupp, Simon - 2024

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Collective bargaining as a tool for real wage increases

Kostov, Lyuboslav - 2024

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Balancing workers' rights and environmental goals : trade unions and the challenge of decarbonisation in Serbia

Milutinović, Slobodan - 2024

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A forward-looking tracker of negotiated wages in the euro area : Eurosystem wage tracker experts

2024

This paper introduces innovative, newly developed forward-looking indicators of negotiated wage growth in the euro area using data on collective bargaining agreements from seven countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and Greece. The paper demonstrates how...

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A forward-looking tracker of negotiated wages in the euro area: Eurosystem wage tracker experts

2024

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Sharing is caring : employee stock ownership plans and employee wellbeing in U.S. manufacturing

Adrianto, Adrianto; Ben-Ner, Avner; Sockin, Jason; … - 2024

Do employees fare better in firms they partly own? Examining workers' reviews of their employers on Glassdoor, we compare employee satisfaction between firms in which workers own company shares through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and conventional firms in which they do not. Focusing...

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Union bargaining power and the amenity-wage tradeoff

Lagos, Lorenzo - 2024

This paper studies the relation between the wage and amenity components of compensation under collective bargaining. Using the universe of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in Brazil, I augment information on workers' wages with the comprehensive set of amenities codified in the text of...

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Union Bargaining Power and the Amenity-Wage Tradeoff

Lagos, Lorenzo - 2024

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Collectively bargained wages and female earnings : evidence from Swedish local governments

Bustos, Emil - 2024

This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers in the public sector receive wages based on negotiations between unions and employers. These agreements usually provide the same wage increase for all covered workers. In 2016,...

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Collectively bargained wages and female earnings: Evidence from Swedish local governments

Bustos, Emil - 2024

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Monopsony makes firms not only small but also unproductive : why East Germany has not converged

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Stüber, Heiko; … - 2024

When employers face a trade-off between being large and paying low wages - and in this sense have monopsony power - some productive employers decide to acquire few customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using...

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The heterogeneous consequences of reduced labor costs on firm productivity

Del Prato, Francesco; Zacchia, Paolo - 2024

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From Legalization to Institutionalized Marginalization: Trade Union Density in Greece, 1970-2020

Papadopoulou, Aggela; Gouzoulis, Giorgos - 2026

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