Journal
COMPETITION & CHANGE
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 809-829Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/10245294221131942
Keywords
wage bargaining; wages; global value chains; collective bargaining; enterprise bargaining
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This study examines the impact of wage bargaining schemes on the relationship between global value chains (GVCs) and workers' wages. The results show that under national and industry bargaining schemes, greater participation in GVCs is associated with lower wages, whereas no adverse impact is observed under enterprise bargaining schemes.
This study examines whether, and how, differences in wage bargaining schemes shape the relationship between global value chains (GVCs) and the wages of workers while considering both GVC participation and position in GVC. Our dataset is derived from the European Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), containing employee-employer data from 18 European countries, merged with sectoral data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD). The results of an augmented Mincer-type regression show that under national and industry wage bargaining schemes, greater participation in GVCs is associated with lower wages, whereas no adverse impact from GVCs is observed for workers under enterprise bargaining schemes. Finally, numerous extensions and instrumental variable estimations confirm that the type of collective pay agreement may alter the response of wages to both GVC participation and position.
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