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The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Industry-Level Wage Bargaining in France

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  • Denis Fougere

    (Observatoire sociologique du changement)

  • Erwan Gautier

    (Université de Nantes)

  • Sébastien Roux

    (INSEE Paris)

Abstract

Cet article est une étude empirique portant sur les ajustements des salaires minima de branche en France et sur leur interaction possible avec les hausses du SMIC (salaire minimum interprofessionnel de croissance). Nous avons construit pour cette étude une base de données contenant près de 48 000 salaires minima de branche associés à des postes spécifiques dans plus de 340 branches sur la période 2006-2014. Nous obtenons que le SMIC a un effet significatif sur la saisonnalité et le calendrier des négociations de branche. L’inflation, les hausses de salaire dans la branche et les hausses de SMIC (en termes réels) sont les principaux déterminants des hausses des minima de branche et les élasticités des minima de branche par rapport à ces variables sont respectivement de 0.6, 0.3 et 0.25. Les élasticités des minima de branches par rapport à l’inflation ou au SMIC diminuent le long de la distribution des minimas mais restent positives pour tous les niveaux de minima.

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  • Denis Fougere & Erwan Gautier & Sébastien Roux, 2016. "The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Industry-Level Wage Bargaining in France," Sciences Po publications 587, Sciences Po.
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    salaire minimum; négociations collectives; salaires; minimum wage; collective bargaining; wages;
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    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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