Abstract
AbstractFinnish employers want the locally bargained wage share to be approximately half of the total wage rise, which is significantly more than the locally bargained share in the current centralised wage agreement. However, employers' attitudes towards local bargaining vary a lot depending on firm characteristics. The aim of this paper is to explain employers' opinion of the proper locally bargained share of contract wages and also about who they think should decide on this wage share. It is shown that employers in large firms and in the financial services sector demand the largest locally bargained share of contract wages. When low competition in the product market is considered a challenge, employers may favour centralised wage setting instead of local bargaining. Employers are willing to involve employees in local bargaining decisions when the firm size is 30–299 employees or when the firm is profitable and operates in the service sector.KeywordsFirm SizeSmall FirmFemale EmployeeForeign OwnershipOrder Probit ModelThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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