On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations

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We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes - that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century - and that contributed to the emergence of a cooperative attitude in the population on various proxies for current cooperative labor relations. Conditional on a large set of firm and municipality level controls, as well as a full set of province fixed effects, we find that firms located in municipalities that had been a free medieval commune in the past, have higher current probabilities to adopt two-tier bargaining structures and to be unionized. We also report IV and propensity score estimates that confirm our main results.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15898

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General ; Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other ; Economic History: General
• Subject: industrial relations ; two-tier bargaining ; unions ; cooperation ; persistence

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cardullo, Gabriele ; Conti, Maurizio ; Ricci, Andrea ; Scicchitano, Sergio ; Sulis, Giovanni
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/272525
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET