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We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a …
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This paper provides sufficient conditions under which the negotiated wage in unionized oligopolistic industries with centralized negotiations is independent of a number of product market features (such as the number of firms, the degree of product substitutability, or the type of market...
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In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally trained workers, firms may therefore receive part of the returns to general training and be willing to...
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In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages …
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In a framework of a unionised international Bertrand duopoly with differentiated products, this paper analyses national labour market interdependencies and the consequences of trade liberalisation for union wages. The analysis suggests that national wages are likely to be strategic complements...
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In the recent research on the effect of stock-based incentive compensation for managers on the degree of collusion … expectations of future demand change over time, managers with stock-based remuneration still have a greater incentive to collude … competition over time. If demand is stochastic, managers can set higher collusive prices in recessions. If demand follows a …
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changes stochastically between a high and low growth rate, managers with undeferred stock-based remuneration set prices weakly … procyclically with positive and weakly anticyclically with negative correlation. Deferred compensation induces managers to collude …
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We investigate the determinants of executive pay in a sample of Italian firms. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on the compensation of Italian executives. We estimate that an increase of real profits per firm by 1 billion lire increases the pay of top executives by only 504...
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In this paper we conduct a theoretical analysis of the implications of a union which can exploit the existence of firm labour adjustment costs. We consider a model involving a large number of identical firms facing a single, economy-wide union. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with...
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We investigate a duopsonistic wage-setting game in which the firms have a limited number of workplaces. We assume that the firms have heterogeneous productivity, that there are two types of workers with different reservation wages and that a worker's productivity is independent of his type. We...
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