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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2005
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IZA Discussion Papers No. 1871
Verlag: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
The paper explores wage setting practice in East Germany since unification. It gathers evidence for the claim that economically non-viable collective agreements have fostered decentralized wage setting. First, we document declining organization rates of both employers and employees, allowing drift between collective and actual wages. Second, we examine macroeconomic wage flexibility by estimating a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes is generated by simultaneous processes of union, nominal or no wage rigidity. The results indicate that wages become more flexible during transition. Furthermore nominal wage rigidity, typical for decentralized bargaining, is much more common in East than in West Germany, while the opposite holds regarding union wage rigidity.
Schlagwörter: 
wage rigidity
unions
East Germany
JEL: 
J31
J51
P52
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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