Wage posting or wage bargaining? Evidence from the employers' side

Hanna Brenzel, Hermann Gartner and Claus Schnabel

No 08/2013, FAU Discussion Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings being characterized by wage posting. Wage posting dominates in the public sector, in larger firms, in firms covered by collective agreements, and in part-time and fixed-term contracts. Job-seekers who are unemployed, out of the labor force or just finished their apprenticeship are also less likely to get a chance of negotiating. Wage bargaining is more likely for more-educated applicants and in jobs with special requirements as well as in tight regional labor markets.

Keywords: wage posting; wage bargaining; hiring; matching; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J30 J63 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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