Essays on Wage Formation and Globalization

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Endogenous wage regime selection: A general equilibrium model 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Collective bargaining regimes in Germany 2.3 The model 2.4 Partial equilibrium 2.5 General equilibrium 2.6 Discussion of the results 2.7 Conclusion Appendix 2.A Detailed derivations of Section 2.3 2.B Detailed derivations of Section 2.4 2.C Detailed derivations of Section 2.5 Chapter 3 Collective bargaining in exporting firms 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Data 3.3 Empirical strategy 3.4 Regression results 3.5 Conclusion Appendix 3.A Details on the calculation of profitability measures 3.B Summary statistics 3.C Further results and robustness checks 3.D Detailed regression output tables Chapter 4 International trade and the fair wage premium 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Econometric specification and data 4.3 Main results 4.4 Conclusion Appendix 4.A Detailed estimation results of Table 4.1 Chapter 5 Wages, competitiveness and exports 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Data and first descriptives 5.3 Empirical strategy 5.4 Results 5.5 Conclusion Appendix 5.A IAB establishment panel Chapter 6 Concluding remarks