Bargaining regimes and wage dispersion

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 226, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 629-645

  Gerlach, Knut ^a,b   Stephan, Gesine ^a,c  

^a Leibniz Universität Hannover ^*

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective contracts; Establishment effects on wages; Wage compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845939524     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2006-0605     Document Type: Review

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