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Wage bargaining regimes and firms' adjustments to the Great Recession / Maddalena Ronchi, Filippo di Mauro ; Halle Institute for Economic Research, Member of the Leibniz Association
VerfasserRonchi, Maddalena ; Di Mauro, Filippo
KörperschaftLeibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle
ErschienenHalle (Saale) : Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Member of the Leibniz Association, [2017]
Umfang1 Online-Ressource (III, 36 Seiten, 1,68 MB) : Diagramme
SpracheEnglisch
SerieIWH-CompNet discussion papers ; 2017, no. 1 (May 2017)
URNurn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-72805 
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The paper aims at investigating to what extent wage negotiation set-ups have shaped up firms' response to the Great Recession taking a firm-level cross-country perspective. We contribute to the literature by building a new micro-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network WDN) with data on firm productivity and other relevant firm characteristics (CompNet). We use the database to study how firms reacted to the Great Recession in terms of variation in profits wages and employment. The paper shows that in line with the theoretical predictions centralized bargaining systems - as opposed to decentralized/firm level based ones - were accompanied by stronger downward wage rigidity as well as cuts in employment and profits.