Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101879 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8358
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Two-tier bargaining structures, in which plant-level wage negotiations supplement industry-level wage setting, are present in a number of EU countries, as unions resist pressures for greater decentralization in wage determination. In principle, these two-tier structures could reconcile macroeconomic stability with a closer link between productivity and pay. Evidence from an ECB firm-level survey suggests, however, that two-tier regimes may end up getting the worst of either fully centralized and fully decentralized systems, as they do not allow incentive schemes to operate downwards, reduce the participation of firms to collective bargaining, and do not seem to improve either microeconomic and macroeconomic adjustment to shocks.
Subjects: 
wage drift
favourability principle
productivity-related pay
JEL: 
J31
J33
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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