Arbeitspapier
Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms
Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but not least, a decreasing importance of industrial relations institutions. In the paper, we investigate in a three-step procedure with firms? data whether the latter determinant is influential. We control for the other relevant explanations and split industrial relations into three components - coverage of collective bargaining, existence of a works council, and union density – within a four-equation model. We find an insignificant influence of the union density. A Works council compresses the wage differentials between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers while coverage is effective in the opposite direction. The latter two effects nearly offset each other.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 176
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Subject
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Wage differentials
skilled and unskilled labour
union density
works councils
coverage of collective bargaining
Lohnstruktur
Qualifikation
Facharbeiter
Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte
Arbeitsbeziehungen
Tarifpolitik
Betriebsrat
Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hübler, Olaf
Meyer, Wolfgang
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2000
- Handle
- Last update
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21.03.2025, 4:09 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hübler, Olaf
- Meyer, Wolfgang
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2000