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In particular, it aims to analyse if the risk of being laid off has any impact on insiders' bargaining power and, consequently, on their wage claims.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>A collective bargaining model that closely follows those developed by Nickell <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic> and Bentolila and Dolado is adopted and a longitudinal panel of large Portuguese firms from all sectors over the 1993\u2010199 period is used.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results reveal that firms where insider workers appear to have more bargaining power tend to pay higher wages. In particular, we found that the threat of dismissal tends to weaken insiders' bargaining power and, consequently, to depress wages.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>In future research an attempt should be made to measure directly the labor turnover costs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper presents robust empirical evidence using micro\u2010data for individual firms that support one of the predictions of the insider\u2010outsider theory that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor turnover costs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/01437720810861994","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,4,5]],"date-time":"2008-04-05T07:15:31Z","timestamp":1207379731000},"page":"30-47","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Market power, dismissal threat, and rent sharing"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Anabela","family":"Carneiro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Pedro","family":"Portugal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022013020051266700_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Abowd, J. and Lemieux, T. 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