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dc.contributor.authorCard, David E.
dc.contributor.authorDe la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara ORCID
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-06T12:48:46Z
dc.date.available2012-02-06T12:48:46Z
dc.date.issued2004-10
dc.identifier.issn1988-088X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/6724
dc.descriptionRevised: 2006-11es
dc.description.abstractIn Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. We estimate conventional wage determination models and a richer set of models that control for the characteristics of coworkers and the probability the workplace is covered by a firm-level contract. Our estimates suggest that firm-level contracting is associated with a 5-10 percent wage premium, with larger premiums for more highly paid workers. Although we cannot decisively test between alternative explanations for the firm-level contracting premium, workers with firm-specific contracts have significantly longer job tenure, suggesting that the premium is at least partially a noncompetitive phenomenon.es
dc.description.sponsorshipSara de la Rica gratefully acknowledges financial support from the FFBVA (1/BBVA 00044.321-15467/2002) and the Spanish Ministry of Education (BEC2003-04826).es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherUniversity of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis IIes
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDFAEII 2004.06
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/*
dc.titleThe effect of firm-level contracts on the structure of wages: evidence from matched employer-employee dataes
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperes
dc.rights.holderAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported*
dc.subject.jelJ31
dc.subject.jelJ51
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:ehu:dfaeii:200406es
dc.departamentoesFundamentos del análisis económico IIes_ES
dc.departamentoeuEkonomia analisiaren oinarriak IIes_ES
dc.subject.categoriaLABOR AND DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS
dc.subject.categoriaECONOMICS, ECONOMETRICS AND FINANCE


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