Collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition

Iga Magda, David Marsden and Simone Moriconi

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Abstract: Using a large matched employer-employee dataset, the authors investigate the relationship between collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They adopt a natural experiment approach and capture the restructuring process triggered by the launch of transition by means of cohort effects among firms founded before or at different stages of this process which enable them to control for the heterogeneity of firms in different cohorts. They find that the wage premium associated with different levels of collective agreements depends on restructuring and its timing in the transition. In early-middle transition firms, industry level agreements protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features of restructuring.

Keywords: Collective agreements; wages; transition economy; restructuring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J51 P2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2009
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Working Paper: Collective Agreements, Wages and Restructuring in Transition (2009)
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