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The labor market effects of trade union heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - 2018
Empirical evidence suggests that the bargaining power of trade unions differs across firms and sectors. Standard models of unionization ignore this pattern by assuming a uniform bargaining strength. In this paper, we incorporate union heterogeneity into a Melitz (2003) type model. Union...
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Firm selection and the role of union heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that high-productivity firms face stronger trade unions than low-productivity firms. Then a policy that puts all unions into a better bargaining position is no longer neutral for firm selection as in models with a uniform bargaining strength across firms. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737334
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Firm Selection and the Role of Union Heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that high-productivity firms face stronger trade unions than low-productivity firms. Then a policy that puts all unions into a better bargaining position is no longer neutral for firm selection as in models with a uniform bargaining strength across firms. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758385
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Efficient wage bargaining in a dynamic macroeconomic model
Böhm, Volker; Claas, Oliver - 2012
This paper analyzes the implications of bilateral bargaining over wages and employment between a producer and a union …. Wages and aggregate employment levels are set according to an efficient (Nash) bargaining agreement while the commodity …, and wages is analyzed being driven primarily by government budget deficits and expectations by consumers. It is shown that …
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Relationship between Leverage and the Bargaining Power of Labor Unions : Evidence from Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Sun Choi, Chil - 2016
This study examines whether a firm's leverage can be used strategically to improve its bargaining position with an organized labor union using samples of non-financial firms listed on the Korean Stock Exchange (KSE) from 1999 to 2013. Through empirical testing, we find that the portfolio with...
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their …
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184507
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Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
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Skill Development, Bargaining Power, and a Theory of Job Design
Moon, Seongwuk - 2018
We examine the job design decision in the context of skill development and bargaining power. The choice between specialization and multitasking requires employees to develop either specialized or varied task-specifc skills. Employees (i.e., the owners of the acquired skills) bargaining power...
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Wage flexibility in a unionized economy with stable wage dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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