TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Oberfichtner, Michael
AU  - Schnabel, Claus
AU  - Töpfer, Marina
        TI  - Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
        PY  - 2020/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13576
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13576
        AB  - Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or works councils affects the gender pay gap. This result holds at the mean and along the distribution, challenging the stylized fact that unions and works councils dampen the gender pay gap.
        KW  - works council
KW  - industrial relations
KW  - gender pay gap
KW  - collective bargaining
KW  - Germany
        ER  -