Collective Bargaining and Within‐firm Wage Dispersion in Spain

Juan Francisco Canal Domínguez and César Rodríguez Gutiérrez

British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, vol. 42, issue 3, 481-506

Abstract: This paper analyses the effect of collective bargaining on within‐firm wage dispersion for the case of Spain. What is relevant in the Spanish case is to compare the effect of the two basic levels of bargaining (firm and sector) on wage dispersion. By using the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition, this paper concludes that collective agreements at firm level have a negative effect on wage dispersion. At the same time, firms that have signed these types of agreements show greater wage dispersion than those covered by agreements at the sector level, owing to the positive and compensating effect of firms’ and workers’ features.

Date: 2004
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