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Pay Policies of Firms and Collective Wage Contracts—An Uneasy Partnership?
Author(s) -
GERLACH KNUT,
STEPHAN GESINE
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2006.00413.x
Subject(s) - wage , general partnership , labour economics , german , collective bargaining , economics , wage share , business , efficiency wage , set (abstract data type) , finance , archaeology , history , computer science , programming language
Theoretical considerations suggest that firms establish consistent internal wage structures and pay wage premiums of similar size across occupational groups. Strong evidence for the existence of coherent employer pay policies across occupations is found using a German employer–employee data set. However, firm‐specific elements of wage policies are less prevalent in firms applying industry‐level collective contracts than in firms with individual‐level wage contracts.