Wage posting or wage bargaining? Evidence from the employers' side

Arbeitspapier

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching pro-cess from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings being charac-terized by wage posting. Wage posting dominates in the public sector, in larger firms, in firms covered by collective agreements, and in part-time and fixed-term contracts. Job-seekers who are unemployed, out of the labor force or just finished their apprenticeship are also less likely to get a chance of negotiating. Wage bar-gaining is more likely for more-educated applicants and in jobs with special requirements as well as in tight regional labor markets.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 85

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
• Thema: wage posting ; wage bargaining ; hiring ; matching ; Germany

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Brenzel, Hanna ; Gartner, Hermann ; Schnabel, Claus
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
• (wo): Nürnberg
• (wann): 2013

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84885
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ