Wage Bargaining Regimes and Firms' Adjustments to the Great Recession

Arbeitspapier

The paper aims at investigating to what extent wage negotiation set-ups have shaped up firms’ response to the Great Recession, taking a firm-level cross-country perspective. We contribute to the literature by building a new micro-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network, WDN) with data on firm productivity and other relevant firm characteristics (CompNet). We use the database to study how firms reacted to the Great Recession in terms of variation in profits, wages, and employment. The paper shows that, in line with the theoretical predictions, centralized bargaining systems – as opposed to decentralized/firm level based ones – were accompanied by stronger downward wage rigidity, as well as cuts in employment and profits.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IWH-CompNet Discussion Papers ; No. 1/2017

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
• Thema: productivity ; wage bargaining ; firm level analysis ; global financial crisis

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ronchi, Maddalena ; di Mauro, Filippo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
• (wo): Halle (Saale)
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/158029
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ