1. Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion in Europe.
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Dell’Aringa, Carlo and Pagani, Laura
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INDUSTRIAL relations research ,BUSINESS negotiation ,COLLECTIVE bargaining ,INCOME inequality - Abstract
The level at which collective bargaining takes place is usually considered important in determining wage levels and wage inequalities. Two different situations are considered: a first in which bargaining is only multi-employer, and a second in which it is multi-level, in the sense that workers can be covered by both a multi-employer and a single-employer contract at the same time. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of these different institutional settings on pay dispersion. The study is carried out using the European Structure of Earnings Survey, which is a large dataset containing detailed matched employer-employee information for the year 1995. The countries analysed are Italy, Belgium and Spain. The empirical results generally show that wages of workers covered by only a multi-employer contract are no more compressed than those of workers covered by both multi-employer and single-employer contracts. This implies that where workers are not covered by single-employer bargaining, they receive wage supplements paid unilaterally by their employers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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