Collective bargaining and relative earnings in Italy

Dell’Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio

doi:10.1016/0176-2680(94)90035-3

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“…'Wage-drift' can occur not only in the form of wage increases agreed at the firm level with SEB. Wage increases in addition to those agreed upon in MEB can also be decided unilaterally by the employers and paid to workers that are not covered by SEB (Yakubovich 2002 and, for Italy, Dell'Aringa andLucifora 1994). This 'non-bargained' or 'unilateral' wage-drift has different and important implications for the analysis of wage inequality.…”

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Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion in Europe

Dell’Aringa

Pagani

2007

Brit J Industrial Rel

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The level at which collective bargaining takes place is usually considered important in determining wage levels and wage inequalities. Two different situations are considered: a first in which bargaining is only 'multi-employer', and a second in which it is 'multi-level', in the sense that workers can be covered by both a 'multi-employer' and a 'single-employer' contract at the same time. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of these different institutional settings on pay dispersion. The study is carried out using the European Structure of Earnings Survey, which is a large dataset containing detailed matched employer-employee information for the year 1995. The countries analysed are Italy, Belgium and Spain. The empirical results generally show that wages of workers covered by only a 'multi-employer' contract are no more compressed than those of workers covered by both 'multi-employer' and 'single-employer' contracts. This implies that where workers are not covered by single-employer bargaining, they receive wage supplements paid unilaterally by their employers. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2007.

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Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion in Europe

Dell’Aringa

Pagani

2007

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…Other works on Italian wage inequality include Dell'Aringa and Lucifora (), Erickson and Ichino (), Brandolini et al . (), Manacorda (), Naticchioni and Ricci (), Devicienti and Borgarello (), Cappellari () and Cappellari and Leonardi ().…”

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Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy

Devicienti

Fanfani

Maida

2018

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Italian male wage inequality has increased at a relatively fast pace from the mid‐1980s until the early 2000s, while it has been persistently flat since then. We analyse this trend, focusing on the period of most rapid growth in pay dispersion. By accounting for worker and firm fixed effects, it is shown that workers' heterogeneity has been a major determinant of increased wage inequalities, while variability in firm wage policies has declined over time. We also show that the growth in pay dispersion has entirely occurred between livelli di inquadramento, that is, job titles defined by national industry‐wide collective bargaining institutions, for which specific minimum wages apply. We conclude that the underlying market forces determining wage inequality have been largely channelled into the tight tracks set by the centralized system of industrial relations.

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“…4 Ce résultat est obtenu pour la plupart des pays analysés, 5 c'est-à-dire l'Allemagne (Gürtzgen, 2006), la Belgique Rycx, 2003), le Danemark , l'Espagne (Card et de la Rica, 2006;de la Rica et González de San Román, 2007;Palenzuela et Jimeno, 1996;, la France (Leclaire et Petit, 2004), l'Italie (Checchi et Pagani, 2004;Dell'Aringa et Lucifora, 1994a; et le Portugal (Cardoso et Portugal, 2005;Hartog et al, 2002b , au Danemark (Plasman et al, 2007), aux Pays-Bas (Hartog et al, 2002a) et au Portugal (Hartog et al, 2002b), l'inverse est observé en Espagne (Dell'Aringa et Pagani, 2007; et en Italie (Checchi et Pagani, 2004;Dell'Aringa et Pagani, 2007). D'autres études mettent en évidence que les performances des entreprises (mesurées par les profits ou la productivité) sont davantage prises en compte dans la détermination des salaires lorsque ceux-ci sont négociés au niveau des entreprises (Gürtzgen, 2005 (Allemagne); Rusinek et Rycx, 2008 (Belgique);Cardoso et Portugal, 2005 (Portugal)).…”

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Quelle est l'influence des négociations d'entreprise sur la structure des salaires ?

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Rycx²

2008

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In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined by industry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements are complemented by firm-specific agreements. This paper provides a critical survey of the literature on effects of this two-tier bargaining system on the structure of wages in Europe and more particularly in Belgium. Empirical findings almost always show that firm-level agreements have a positive and significant effect on workers' wages. The impact on the dispersion of wages, however, is ambiguous. This may be due to the use of different data and methodologies but also to national differences. In particular, the degree of centralisation of collective bargaining appears to be a key variable.

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Collective bargaining and relative earnings in Italy

Cited by 40 publications

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Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion in Europe

Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion in Europe

Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy

Quelle est l'influence des négociations d'entreprise sur la structure des salaires ?

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