Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France

52 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2015

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Juan Carluccio

Banque de France; Paris School of Economics

Denis Fougère

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); CNRS and SCIENCES PO PARIS; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Erwan Gautier

Banque de France - Centre de Recherche

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Abstract

We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has heterogeneous effects. The impact of trade on wages varies across bargaining regimes. In firms with collective bargaining, the elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains associated with collective bargaining are similar across worker categories.

Keywords: exports, offshoring, firm-level wages, collective bargaining

JEL Classification: F16, J51, E24

Suggested Citation

Carluccio, Juan and Fougere, Denis and Fougere, Denis and Gautier, Erwan, Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France. IZA Discussion Paper No. 8894, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2578246 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2578246

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