TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kauhanen, Antti
AU  - Maczulskij, Terhi
AU  - Riukula, Krista
        TI  - Heterogeneous Impacts of the Decentralization of Collective Bargaining
        PY  - 2020/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13867
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13867
        AB  - This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage increases and wage dispersion in Finland. We use linked employer-employee panel data for the 2005-2013 period, which includes major changes in bargaining systems and economic conditions. Our regression results from models with high-dimensional individual and firm fixed effects show that decentralized bargaining leads to very different outcomes for blue- and white-collar employees. 
Decentralized bargaining decreases wage dispersion among blue-collar employees and slightly increases it among white-collar employees. Decentralization also affects the incidence of wage increases differently for blue- and white-collar employees. We argue that these differences reflect the different preferences of the employee groups. We also show that the fallback option in local negotiations affects the decentralization outcomes.
        KW  - wage dispersion
KW  - decentralization
KW  - collective agreements
KW  - wage bargaining
KW  - wage increase
        ER  -