%0 Report
        %A Maczulskij, Terhi
%A Haapanen, Mika
%A Kauhanen, Antti
%A Riukula, Krista
        %T Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14654
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14654
        %X Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual-and firm-level fixed effects show that decentralized wage bargaining leads to distinct outcomes for different employee groups. For example, white-collar employees in white-collar intensive firms show increased well-being at work. In contrast, all employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects mostly job-separation behavior and mental ill-health, whereas no consistent effects for sickness absence are observed. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or different preferences toward wage policy needs to be explored further.
        %K decentralization
%K collective agreements
%K mental health disorder
%K sickness absence
%K job separation
%K blue-collar
%K white-collar