<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

Department of Statistics and Econometrics, University of Economics, Bucharest

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

South East European Journal of Economics and Business

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...

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

Published Online: Jun 07, 2011

Page range: 75 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10033-010-0007-2

Keywords
Romania, wage collective bargaining, employee voluntary separation, propensity score matching estimation

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

Published Online: Jun 07, 2011

Page range: 75 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10033-010-0007-2

KeywordsRomania, wage collective bargaining, employee voluntary separation, propensity score matching estimation

This content is open access.

Keywords
Romania, wage collective bargaining, employee voluntary separation, propensity score matching estimation