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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we distinguish sector- specific wage agreements, firm-specific wage agreements and wage determination without any bargaining coverage. Our findings indicate that individual wages are positively related to firm-specific rents in the non-union sector and under firm-specific contracts. Industry-wide wage contracts, however, seem to suppress firm-level rent-sharing. While pooled OLS estimates yield a positive correlation between wages and quasi-rents under centralised contracts, estimates accounting for unobserved individual and establishment heterogeneity point to a coe? cient of zero. Differenced GMM estimates accounting for the endogeneity of our profitability measure even point to a negative relationship under centralised contracts.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 05-90

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
Rent-Sharing
Unions
Linked Employer-Employee Data
Lohnbildung
Rentabilität
Lohnverhandlungstheorie
Rententheorie
Tarifpolitik
Schätzung
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gürtzgen, Nicole
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gürtzgen, Nicole
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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