Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50062 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 266
Publisher: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset to analyse the impact of institutional wage bargaining regimes on levels of average labour costs and within firm wage dispersion in private sector companies in Ireland. The results show that while centralised bargaining reduced labour costs within both the indigenous and foreign-owned sectors, the relative advantage was greater among foreign-owned firms. The analysis suggests that there are potentially large competitiveness gains to multinational companies that choose to locate in countries implementing a centralised bargaining system. Furthermore, the results provide additional support to the view that collective bargaining reduces within firm wage inequality.
Subjects: 
wage bargaining regimes
labour costs
wage dispersion
Ireland
JEL: 
J51
J52
J58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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