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"The paper analyses the relationship between individual tenure and the application
of collective contracts at the firm level, using a multi-level model
and a German linked employer-employee data set for the years 1990,
1995 and 2001. The main result is that elapsed tenure is longer in firms
applying collective contracts than in companies with individual wagesetting.
Thus workers in firms with collective contracts benefit not only
from higher wages, but also from higher job stability. Furthermore, we
find no significant changes in mean tenure during the nineties as well as
stable differences across wage-setting regimes." [authors abstract]

1982 agricultural reform proposing wage incentives to increase productivity in Soviet agriculture; factors hindering implementation; Gorbachev's support. Part of the "USSR Food Programme for the period up to 1990."

"The authors use German linked employer-employee data for the years 1990, 1995 and 2001 to analyze, which dimensions of wage setting differ across three wage-setting regimes: Establishments applying sectoral collective contracts, establishments with firm-level contracts and uncovered establishments. The empirical analysis is restricted to workers without supervisory functions in larger manufacturing firms and shows that for this group of workers base wages are higher in firms applying collective contracts, while returns to human capital and the gender wage gap are reduced. Moreover, during the nineties these effects have become stronger." (author's abstract)

"The gender wage gap in Germany is smaller in firms covered by collective contracts or having a works council, partly because these institutions are associated with lower unobserved productivity differences and less wage discrimination, partly because they compress the distribution of wage residuals." (author's abstract)