The Employment E ects of Collective Bargaining
Bernardo Fanfani
No def095, DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE)
Abstract:
This paper studies the wage and employment e ects of Italian collective bargaining, analysing monthly data on the population of private-sector employees matched with information on contractual pay levels settled in industry-wide agreements bargained by trade unions' and employers' representatives at the national level. The research design exploits the generalised wage growth induced by changes in contractual pay levels, whose timing and size di ers across collective agreements, and it compares the outcomes of interest within sectors and geographical locations between workers subject to di erent contracts. The specification adopted controls for space-specific sectoral unobserved time-varying disturbances in a fully non-parametric way. Results show that a growth in contractual wages increases actual pay levels, determining at the same time negative effects on employment. The confidence interval of the implied own-price labour demand elasticity ranges between -0.4 and -1.2 in the preferred model specification. The interactions of this parameter with firm-level outcomes {value added per worker, size, the labour share and capital intensity{ are broadly consistent with Hicks-Marshall laws and with traditional models of centralized wage bargaining. Further analyses carefully document the dynamics of employment adjustments to contractual wage levels across time and assess the overall robustness of the results.
Keywords: collective bargaining; labour demand; employment; industrial relations; minimum wage. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J08 J21 J23 J38 J52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 72
Date: 2020-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cta, nep-eur and nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)
Downloads: (external link)
http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/economia-finanza-def095.pdf First version, 2020 (application/pdf)
Related works:
Working Paper: The Employment Effects of Collective Bargaining (2019) ![Downloads](https://speed.lescigales.org/xypor/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lY29ucGFwZXJzLnJlcGVjLm9yZy9kb3dubG9hZHNfZWNvbnBhcGVycy5naWY%3D)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ctc:serie1:def095
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Simone Moriconi ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).