Wage Collective Bargaining and Employee Voluntary Quits: A Romanian Empirical Analysis

• Authors: Cristina Boboc , Oana Calavrezo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we analyze Hirschman's "voice-exit" theory on the Romanian labour market. In other words, we study the relationship between wage collective bargaining and employee voluntary departures. We assess a kernel matching estimator on a recent Romanian survey of 783 firms. We highlight that, in Romania, before the integration to the European Union, wage collective bargaining implies a weakly significant increase in the probability of experiencing voluntary separations. This result is contrary to the relationship found in empirical studies implemented on developed countries.

Keywords

EN

Romania; wage collective bargaining; employee voluntary separation; propensity score matching estimation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: South East European Journal of Economics and Business
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 75-84

Dates

published

2010-04-01

online

2011-06-07

Contributors

author

Cristina Boboc

• Department of Statistics and Econometrics, University of Economics, Bucharest

author

Oana Calavrezo

• Faculté de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion, University of Orléans -LEO LEO

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10033-010-0007-2