Documents Speckesser, Stefan 7 results

"National wage-bargaining institutions are crucial in achieving pay outcomes that help to increase employment and economic growth within the context of avoiding macroeconomic imbalances within the European Monetary Union. Using a large set of empirical macroeconomic data from a variety of sources, including Eurofound and the European Commission AMECO database, this report analyses how the institutional features of national wage bargaining regimes influence pay outcomes. These features include bargaining level, type and level of coordination, use of opening clauses and the existence of wage pacts. The impact of government intervention through extension and derogation clauses and tripartite councils is also examined. The results of the study indicate that the key institutional variables of the wage-bargaining regime that influence pay outcomes are the type of coordination (how coordination is achieved) and the bargaining level."

"This study was commissioned by the Low Pay Commission in order to support the preparation of its 2013 report and aims to estimate the impact of the introduction of the National Minimum Wage Apprentice Rate (NMWAR) on wage levels of apprentices pay using individual level data. Our objective was to understand whether the NMWAR had an impact on pay levels and what conclusions could be drawn from this to guide the further development of the rate.
Our report consists of two main parts:
A descriptive analysis of the development of apprentice pay between 2007 and 2011 and the bite of the NMWAR (the rate relative to median earnings and other points on the earnings distribution), in particular for specific groups of apprentices and sectors.
An econometric analysis of the quantitative impact of the introduction of the NMWAR on levels of gross hourly apprentice wages considering the counterfactual of non-introduction, which we estimate a) based on people learning towards similar qualifications, who are not participating in apprenticeships and b) using data for apprentices below and above the NMWAR and by further comparing these groups over time (2007 to 2011)."