On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations

Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Andrea Ricci (), Sergio Scicchitano () and Giovanni Sulis ()
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Andrea Ricci: INAPP – Institute for Public Policy Analysis

No 15898, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes - that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century - and that contributed to the emergence of a cooperative attitude in the population on various proxies for current cooperative labor relations. Conditional on a large set of firm and municipality level controls, as well as a full set of province fixed effects, we find that firms located in municipalities that had been a free medieval commune in the past, have higher current probabilities to adopt two-tier bargaining structures and to be unionized. We also report IV and propensity score estimates that confirm our main results.

Keywords: industrial relations; two-tier bargaining; unions; cooperation; persistence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J50 J53 J59 N00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2023-01
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Journal Article: On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labour relations (2024)
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