Behindern Flächentarifverträge eine betriebliche Differenzierung der Entlohnung? (Do industry-level contracts suppress firm wage differentials?)

Nicole Gürtzgen
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Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, vol. 44, issue 1/2, 155-161

Abstract: "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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Betrieb; Betriebsrente; Firmentarifvertrag; Flächentarifvertrag; IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz; Tarifbindung; Lohnelastizität; Lohnflexibilität; Lohnhöhe; Öffnungsklausel; Anpassung; Produktivität; Produktivitätsunterschied; Tarifpolitik; Unternehmen; Unternehmenserfolg; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit; Wirtschaftlichkeit; Wirtschaftszweige (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-02-10
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