Behindern Flächentarifverträge eine betriebliche Differenzierung der Entlohnung?

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This article studies the role of collective bargaining coverage for the relationship between wages and firm-specific performance. The empirical evidence based upon German linked employer-employee data provides support for the hypothesis that industry-level contracts suppress firm wage differentials that arise from firm-specific profitability conditions. Addressing the role of the frequency of shocks to firm performance, the evidence further suggests that the insensitivity of wages to firm-specific productivity fluctuations is mainly driven by the insulation of wages from transitory shocks. For permanent shocks, however, the evidence points to somewhat more flexible wages as - at least at large employers - wages are found to significantly respond to permanent productivity fluctuations. As to the role of firm heterogeneity in a given industry, the empirical results also show that under industry-level bargaining workers in more heterogeneous sectors receive lower wages than workers in more homogeneous sectors. This may be interpreted as evidence that centralised unions internalise negative implications of a compressed industry wage structure for below-average performing firms.

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• Sprache: Deutsch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research ; ISSN: 2510-5027 ; Volume: 44 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 1/2 ; Pages: 155-161 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Flächentarifvertrag ; Tarifbindung ; Lohnflexibilität ; Unternehmen ; Lohnhöhe - Anpassung ; Betrieb ; Lohnelastizität ; Betriebsrente ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ; Wirtschaftlichkeit ; Wirtschaftszweige ; Produktivität ; Produktivitätsunterschied ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Öffnungsklausel ; Firmentarifvertrag ; Tarifpolitik ; IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gürtzgen, Nicole
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1007/s12651-011-0055-9
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/158749
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ