The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
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In: Working paper series in economics 324
In: Discussion paper 13-086
In: Labour markets, human resources and social policy
In: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 639
In: Diskussionspapiere 62
Using a large linked employeremployee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice effects are only visible for low tenured workers. Works councils also reduce separations to non-employment, and this impact is more pronounced for men. Insurance effects only show up for workers with tenure of more than one year. Our results indicate that works councils primarily represent the interests of a specific clientele. -- works council ; separations ; collective voice ; duration models ; Germany
In: IZA world of labor: evidence-based policy making
In: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 639
In: Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems 639
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 56, Heft 5, S. 543-558
ISSN: 1467-9485
ABSTRACTThis paper presents an alternative explanation of the gender pay gap resting on a simple Hotelling‐style duopsony model of the labour market. Since there are only two employers, equally productive women and men have to commute and face travel cost to do so. We assume that some women have higher travel cost, e.g., due to more domestic responsibilities. Employers exploit that women on average are less inclined to commute and offer lower wages to all women. Since women's firm‐level labour supply is for this reason less wage‐elastic, this model is in line with Robinson's explanation of wage discrimination.
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 8804
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In: IWH discussion papers 2018, no. 2 (February 2018)
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective agreements and in firms with a works council, holding constant firm performance. RIF regressions show that premia are less dispersed among covered firms but more dispersed among firms with a works council. Hence, deunionisation is the only among the suspects investigated that contributes to explaining the marked rise in the premia dispersion over time.
In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6890
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In: The Manchester School, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 347-362
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In: The Manchester School, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 347-362
ISSN: 1467-9957
Building on the right‐to‐manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time‐varying indicator of union strength taking account of taxation, unemployment benefits, and the labour market situation and confronts this indicator with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power did not change much from 1992 to 2002 but fell markedly (by about one‐third) from 2002 to 2007 in the aftermath of substantial labour market reforms.
In: ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 13-086
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In: Journal for labour market research, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 103-118
ISSN: 2510-5027, 1867-8343