Shortage of Skilled Labor, Unions and the Wage Premium: A Regression Analysis with Establishment Panel Data for Germany.

IF 1 4区管理学 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Journal of Labor Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-22 DOI:10.1007/s12122-022-09334-1

Arnd Kölling

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The author investigates the different influences of labor shortage on wages in firms with or without collective bargaining agreements. In addition to training, technological solutions, and organizational flexibility, employers can also offer higher wages at a constant employment level to fill vacancies if the current payments are lower than the marginal revenue of the workers. Firms with collective bargaining agreements probably already pay wages according to marginal revenue or, in the case of rent sharing, above it, and the remuneration is probably also not adjusted. Using wage regressions with panel data for German establishments, this paper shows that collective bargaining and a lack of skilled workers can lead to higher wages. However, the latter only applies to firms that are not bound by collective agreements. Hence, wage differentials between these firms decrease, providing further explanation for a countercyclical development of the wage premium from the collective bargaining agreement.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12122-022-09334-1.

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熟练劳动力短缺、工会与工资溢价:德国建立面板数据的回归分析。

作者考察了在有集体谈判协议和没有集体谈判协议的企业中，劳动力短缺对工资的不同影响。除了培训、技术解决方案和组织灵活性，如果当前支付低于工人的边际收入，雇主也可以在恒定的就业水平上提供更高的工资来填补空缺。签订集体谈判协议的公司可能已经根据边际收入支付工资，或者在租金分摊的情况下，高于边际收入支付工资，而且薪酬可能也没有调整。通过对德国企业的面板数据进行工资回归，本文表明，集体谈判和缺乏熟练工人可能导致更高的工资。然而，后者只适用于不受集体协议约束的公司。因此，这些公司之间的工资差异减少，进一步解释了集体谈判协议中工资溢价的反周期发展。补充资料:在线版本提供补充资料，网址为10.1007/s12122-022-09334-1。

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