TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hirsch, Boris
AU  - Müller, Steffen
        TI  - Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
        PY  - 2018/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11309
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11309
        AB  - This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective agreements and in firms with a works council, holding constant firm performance. RIF regressions show that premia are less dispersed among covered firms but more dispersed among firms with a works council. Hence, deunionization is the only among the suspects investigated that contributes to explaining the marked rise in the premia dispersion over time.
        KW  - rent sharing
KW  - bargaining power
KW  - works councils
KW  - trade unions
KW  - industrial relations
KW  - firm wage premium
KW  - wage inequality
KW  - Germany
        ER  -