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Collective Bargaining and the Interindustry Wage Structure: International Evidence
Author(s) -
Kahn Lawrence M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
economica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.532
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1468-0335
pISSN - 0013-0427
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0335.00144
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , wage , spillover effect , economics , wage bargaining , labour economics , collective bargaining , quantile regression , wage dispersion , wage share , efficiency wage , census , population , macroeconomics , demography , econometrics , sociology
This paper studies collective bargaining and industry wage levels using microdata and quantile regression techniques for the United States, Britain, West Germany, Austria, Sweden and Norway for the 1980s. The United States has higher industry wage differentials and union wage effects than other countries, with particularly large impacts at the bottom of the distribution. European wage structures are more compressed at the bottom for both nonunion and union workers relative to the United States, with larger differences for nonunion workers. These findings suggest more coordination, contract extension and spillover to nonunion workers, and more binding industry wage floors outside the United States.