Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Ève; Fernando, Jorge; Cingano, Federico; Falco, Paolo; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jansen, Marcel A. K.; Martins, Pedro S.; Melo, Antônio Marlos Duarte de; Oberfichtner, Michael; Popp, Martin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4114807

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“…Social partners can also play important roles in setting national minimum wages, shaping employment law, providing training, and coordinating social security, public employment services, and labour inspectorates (Behrens & Helfen, 2016;Boeri, 2012;OECD, 2019;Visser, 2019). At the same time, social partners can also engage in insider-outsider or even collusion practices, with detrimental effects (Bassanini et al, 2022;Hijzen & Martins, 2020;Krueger & Ashenfelter, 2018;Patault & Valtat, 2020).…”

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How representative are social partners in Europe? The role of dissimilarity

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Martins

2022

Labour

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Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, when examining social partners' representativeness, it is important to consider both affiliation and dissimilarity measures. The latter concerns the extent to which affiliated and nonaffiliated firms or workers are distributed similarly across relevant dimensions, including firm size. In our analysis of European Company Survey data, we find that affiliation and dissimilarity measures correlate positively across countries, particularly in the case of employers' associations. This result also holds across employers' associations when we use firm population data for Portugal. Overall, we conclude that higher affiliation rates do not necessarily equate to more representative social partners as they can involve greater dissimilarity between affiliated and non-affiliated firms.

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How representative are social partners in Europe? The role of dissimilarity

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Martins

2022

Labour

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“…These findings may also be useful in the new literature on labour market power, including , Azar, Marinescu, Steinbaum & Taska (2020) and Bassanini et al (2022). In this literature, concentration is typically measured using the number of employers in a given local labour market.…”

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“…the case of the US fast-food sector, and finding supporting evidence. A related literature is the recent research on labour market monopsony or market power, including , Azar, Marinescu, Steinbaum & Taska (2020) and Bassanini et al (2022).…”

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Training, Worker Mobility, and Employer Coordination

Martins

Thomas

2022

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“…We do not provide specific information on these for legal reasons. 2020), Bassanini et al (2022)) in that it implies that industry concentration alone may not capture the degree of competition if there are tacit arrangements such as an NPA.…”

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