Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36769 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4871
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare across-industry heterogeneity in rent-sharing parameters derived from three different approaches. The accounting approach and the standard labor economics approach are compatible with distinct labor bargaining settings (right-to-manage, efficient bargaining, labor hoarding) whereas the productivity approach hinges on the assumption of efficient bargaining. Across the different approaches, we evidently find differences in dispersion of the rent-sharing parameter estimates which could be attributable to differences in modeling assumptions and/or data requirements but these estimates lie within a comparable range. We interpret the latter finding as lending empirical support to efficient bargaining as the nature of the bargaining process in France over the considered period.
Subjects: 
Rent sharing
wage equation
production function
matched employer-employee data
JEL: 
C23
D21
J31
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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