The employment effects of collective bargaining

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This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms driving the gender wage gap, in particular compensating wage differentials. These results inform an analysis of sex pay differences in the Italian manufacturing sector showing that preferences for workplaces providing more flexible schedules are a significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small in size.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 95

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Economics: General ; Labor Economics Policies ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Labor Demand ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy ; Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation; Collective Bargaining
• Subject: collective bargaining ; labour demand ; employment ; industrial relations ; minimum wage

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fanfani, Bernardo
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DISCE)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/238306
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET