Program > Papers by author > Gautier Erwan

The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Industry-Level Wage Bargaining in France
Erwan Gautier  1@  , Sébastien Roux  2@  , Denis Fougere  3@  
1 : Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique  (LEMNA)  -  Website
Université de Nantes : EA4272
2 : Banque de France & CREST
Banque de France & CREST
3 : Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique  (CREST)  -  Website
INSEE, École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique

This paper examines empirically how industry-level wage floors are set in French industry-level wage agreements and how the national minimum wage (NMW) can interact with industry-level wage bargaining. We use for that a unique data set containing about 48,000 occupation-specific wage floors, in more than 340 French industries over the period 2006-2014. We find that the NMW has a significant impact the seasonality and the timing of the wage bargaining process. Real NMW increases affect the size of wage floor adjustments; the average elasticity is estimated close to 0.25. The elasticity of wage floors with respect to the NMW is heterogeneous along the wage floor distribution but the NMW affects significantly all levels of wage floors.



  • Other
Online user: 2 RSS Feed