Labor market concentration, wages and job security in Europe

We leverage administrative linked employer-employee data from six European countries to provide the first comparable cross-country evidence on the impact of labor market concentration on wages and job security. We find strikingly similar and relatively low wage elasticities across countries, but gre...

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Autores: Bassanini, Andrea, Casanova Ferrando, Jorge, Caroli, Eve, Cingano, Federico, Falco, Paolo, Felgueroso, Florentino, Jansen, Marcel, Martins, Pedro S., Melo, Antonio, Oberfichtner, Michael, Popp, Martin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/717032
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/717032
https://dx.doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0223-12757R1
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Labor market concentration
Monopsony
Wages
Job security
Collective bargaining
Economía
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Sumario:We leverage administrative linked employer-employee data from six European countries to provide the first comparable cross-country evidence on the impact of labor market concentration on wages and job security. We find strikingly similar and relatively low wage elasticities across countries, but greater elasticities for job security, as measured by contract type. We provide suggestive evidence that the similarity of our wage elasticities and the greater sensitivity of job security to labor market concentration may be explained by the fact that sector-level collective bargaining is dominant in the countries we study and that it sets wages but usually not contract type