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- Title
A Note on Job Tenure and Collective Contracts.
- Authors
Gerlach, Knut; Stephan, Gesine
- Abstract
This paper analyses the relationship between individual tenure and the application of collective contracts at the firm level under the specific institutional settings in Germany. The empirical approach is based on a multilevel model and a 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 wage setting: 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 1990s as well as stable differences across wage-setting regimes.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT tenure; MATHEMATICAL models; REGRESSION analysis; WAGES; LABOR contracts; COLLECTIVE bargaining
- Publication
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
1121-7081
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00380.x