Centralisation, Employment and Wage Dispersion
研究工资谈判的集中化程度如何影响工资离散度和就业，通过分析17个OECD国家1973年后的数据，发现高度集中化的工资谈判能同时实现高就业和低工资离散度，并基于Calmfors和Driffill的模型进行模拟验证。
This paper is about bargaining institutions and their influence on wage dispersion and employment. Using novel statistical measures, it compares labor-market performance in seventeen OECD countries since 1973. It concludes that countries with highly centralized wage bargaining have generally achieved the best performance, combining high employment with low wage dispersion, thereby avoiding certain major inequalities prevalent elsewhere. The paper also presents a formal model of bargaining based on the work of L. Calmfors and J. Driffill (1988). Simulations are used to illustrate how this model generates the kind of outcomes described in the empirical part of the paper. Copyright 1992 by Royal Economic Society.