Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272525 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15898
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes - that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century - and that contributed to the emergence of a cooperative attitude in the population on various proxies for current cooperative labor relations. Conditional on a large set of firm and municipality level controls, as well as a full set of province fixed effects, we find that firms located in municipalities that had been a free medieval commune in the past, have higher current probabilities to adopt two-tier bargaining structures and to be unionized. We also report IV and propensity score estimates that confirm our main results.
Subjects: 
industrial relations
two-tier bargaining
unions
cooperation
persistence
JEL: 
J50
J53
J59
N00
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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