What Has Happened to the Workers’ Bargaining Power?

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What Has Happened to the Workers’ Bargaining Power? Lucio Baccaro University of Geneva Department of Sociology Sept. 1, 2009

Focus on Workers’ Protective Institutions Union Density Collective bargaining coverage Collective bargaining structure Participation in Public Policy-Making/Tripartism

Union Density and Inequality (Between)

C.B. Structure and Inequality (Between)

A Puzzle Labor’s protective institutions are robustly associated with cross-sectional differences in income inequality When it comes to within-country differences there seems to be no association Hypothesis: Labor institutions have begun to operate in a rather different way in the era of globalization

Mean Yearly Union Density in 16 OECD countries

Change in Union Density Rates

Mean Yearly Bargaining Coverage in 16 OECD countries

Index of Corporatist Policy-Making (16 Countries)

Bargaining Coordination and Tripartism

Corporatist Scores and Rankings

Trends in Protective Institutions Dramatic decline in union density rates Much smaller decline in bargaining coverage Resilience of corporatist policy-making Trade-off between collective bargaining decentralization and increased participation in corporatist policy-making Overall, no evidence of generalized dismantling, at least in Continental Europe

Impact of Corporatism on Inequality

Impact of Corporatism on the Wage Share

Effects of Workers’ Protective Institutions Corporatism (and particularly collective bargaining coordination) survives but is no longer redistributive Social pacts of the 1990s: macro-concessionary bargaining Redistribution through transfers seems more effective

Determinants of Societal Inequality

What Has Happened? Corporatist institutions without strong unions are empty shells? More elastic labor demand? Internalization of neo-liberal imperatives? E.g. transformation of social democratic parties

Implications Labor market channel sealed off for redistribution Transfers still highly effective Questions: 1) Do we need a new model of labor market regulation? 2) How do we finance generous transfers?