Micro-evidence on rent sharing from different perspectives
By: Sabien Dobbelaere, Jacques Mairesse
Contributors: Mairesse, Jacques; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16220; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16220.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data.  Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare industry differences in rent-sharing parameters derived from three different approaches.  The accounting approach and the standard labor economics approach are compatible with distinct labor bargaining settings (right-to-manage, efficient bargaining, labor hoarding) whereas the productivity approach hinges on the assumption of efficient bargaining.  Across the different approaches, we evidently find differences in dispersion of the industry-specific rent-sharing parameter estimates which could be attributable to differences in modeling assumptions and/or data requirements but these estimates lie within a comparable range.  We interpret the latter finding as lending empirical support to efficient bargaining as the nature of the bargaining process in France over the considered period"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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