Firm heterogeneity and wages in unionised labour markets : theory and evidence

In many countries wages are set in two stages, where industry-level collective bargaining is followed by firm-specific arrangements determining actual paid wages as a mark-up on the industry wage floor. What explains the wage set in each of these stages? In this paper we show that both the industry...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bastos, Paulo (author)
Other Authors: Monteiro, Natália (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7878
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/7878