Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203102 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2019/12
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
This article investigates the relation linking single-employer bargaining and within-firm wage dispersion - a significant driver of overall wage inequality. The study considers six European economies (Belgium, Spain, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and the UK), featuring different collective bargaining institutions, in 2006 and 2010. We examine two different measures of within-firm inequality, allowing to capture how different groups of employees (top vs. bottom paid, and managers vs. low-layer employees) may differently benefit or lose from firm-level bargaining. Our findings show that firm-level bargaining has heterogeneous effects across countries, over time and by inequality measures. We interpret our evidence as supporting that country-specificities and the heterogeneous balance of power within organizations represent key elements to understand the role of the bargaining system in shaping inequalities.
Subjects: 
within-firm wage inequalities
occupational wage-gap
firm-level bargaining
matched employer-employee data
JEL: 
J31
J33
J51
J52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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