Arbeitspapier
Is the erosion thesis overblown? Evidence from the orientation of uncovered employers
It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a time when collective bargaining proper has been in retreat, little is known of corresponding trends in the frequency of indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining regimes as well as changes in wages from switches in regime. It is reported that orientation is growing with the decline in sectoral bargaining and that orienting firms do pay higher wages than their counterparts in the collective bargaining free zone. Yet in neither case - frequency nor remuneration - is the degree of 'compensation' recorded other than partial.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6658
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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orientation
erosion of collective bargaining
uncovered sector
sectoral bargaining
wages
regime shifts
Lohnverhandlungen
Tarifpolitik
Lohnpolitik
Arbeitsmarktflexibilität
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Addison, John T.
Teixeira, Paulino
Evers, Katalin
Bellmann, Lutz
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Addison, John T.
- Teixeira, Paulino
- Evers, Katalin
- Bellmann, Lutz
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2012
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