--- title: "Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-being at Work" authors: - name: "Maczulskij, Terhi" url: "https://www.etla.fi/henkilot/maczulskij-terhi/" sameAs: - "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4325-2254" - "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RqySUVUAAAAJ" - "https://twitter.com/maczulskij" - "https://sites.google.com/view/terhi-maczulskij" - name: "Haapanen, Mika" - name: "Kauhanen, Antti" url: "https://www.etla.fi/henkilot/kauhanen-antti/" sameAs: - "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-1241" - "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AjYlgDoAAAAJ" - "https://twitter.com/Antti_Kauhanen" - "https://sites.google.com/view/antti-kauhanen/home" - name: "Riukula, Krista" url: "https://www.etla.fi/henkilot/riukula-krista/" sameAs: - "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0117-0816" - "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WGOHyykAAAAJ" - "https://twitter.com/kristariukula" - "https://www.kristariukula.com/" date_published: "2021-08-23" series: "ETLA Working Papers" series_number: "89" issn: - "2323-2420" - "2323-2439" jel_codes: - "J31" - "J51" - "J52" language: "en" publisher: "ETLA Economic Research" pdf_url: "https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/ETLA-Working-Papers-89.pdf" keywords: - "Decentralization" - "Collective agreements" - "Mental health disorder" - "Sickness absence" - "Job separation" - "Blue-collar" - "White-collar" identifier: "https://www.etla.fi/julkaisut/id/ETLA-Working-Papers-89" abstract: "Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual-and firm-level fixed effects show that decentralized wage bargaining leads to distinct outcomes for different employee groups. For example, white-collar employees in white-collar intensive firms show increased well-being at work. In contrast, all employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects mostly job-separation behavior and mental ill-health, whereas no consistent effects for sickness absence are observed. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker’s well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or different preferences toward wage policy needs to be explored further." --- # Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-being at Work **Published:** 2021-08-23 **Categories:** Publikationer, Working Papers **URL:** https://www.etla.fi/sv/publikationer/dark-half-decentralized-bargaining-and-well-being-at-work/ #### Abstract Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual-and firm-level fixed effects show that decentralized wage bargaining leads to distinct outcomes for different employee groups. For example, white-collar employees in white-collar intensive firms show increased well-being at work. In contrast, all employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects mostly job-separation behavior and mental ill-health, whereas no consistent effects for sickness absence are observed. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker’s well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or different preferences toward wage policy needs to be explored further. --- ## Additional Information **Kirjoittajat:** Maczulskij, Terhi - Haapanen, Mika - Kauhanen, Antti - Riukula, Krista **Publication Research:** No **Kansikuva:** https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/etla-working-papers-89-kansi.jpg **Lataa Pdf:** https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/ETLA-Working-Papers-89.pdf **Key Words:** Decentralization, Collective agreements, Mental health disorder, Sickness absence, Job separation, Blue-collar, White-collar **Jel:** J31, J51, J52 **Paivays:** 23.08.2021 **Sivuja:** 42 **Kieli:** en **Sarja:** ETLA Working Papers **Sarja Nro:** 89 **Issn:** 2323-2420, 2323-2439 (Pdf) **Saatavuus:** 2 65344 ## Bibliographic metadata (JSON-LD) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "ScholarlyArticle", "@id": "https://www.etla.fi/julkaisut/id/ETLA-Working-Papers-89", "headline": "Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-being at Work", "inLanguage": "en", "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ETLA Economic Research", "url": "https://www.etla.fi", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/logo-etla_logo.svg" } }, "datePublished": "2021-08-23T00:00:00+00:00", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maczulskij, Terhi", "url": "https://www.etla.fi/henkilot/maczulskij-terhi/", "sameAs": [ "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4325-2254", "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RqySUVUAAAAJ", "https://twitter.com/maczulskij", "https://sites.google.com/view/terhi-maczulskij" ] }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Haapanen, Mika" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kauhanen, Antti", "url": "https://www.etla.fi/henkilot/kauhanen-antti/", "sameAs": [ "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-1241", "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AjYlgDoAAAAJ", "https://twitter.com/Antti_Kauhanen", "https://sites.google.com/view/antti-kauhanen/home" ] }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Riukula, Krista", "url": "https://www.etla.fi/henkilot/riukula-krista/", "sameAs": [ "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0117-0816", "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WGOHyykAAAAJ", "https://twitter.com/kristariukula", "https://www.kristariukula.com/" ] } ], "abstract": "Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. 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