TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Maczulskij, Terhi
AU  - Haapanen, Mika
AU  - Kauhanen, Antti
AU  - Riukula, Krista
        TI  - Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work
        PY  - 2021/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14654
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14654
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - decentralization
KW  - collective agreements
KW  - mental health disorder
KW  - sickness absence
KW  - job separation
KW  - blue-collar
KW  - white-collar
        ER  -