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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …
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Effects of Labour Market Flexibility in the Long Run: Evidence from the Italian Case (1977-2009)
Alderighi, Stefano; Ivaldi, Enrico; Soliani, Riccardo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2014) 3
The present paper studies whether labour market deregulation is correlated with employment creation in Italy and the decline of trade union power. Our hypothesis is that the correlation does not hold, and that flexible contracts facilitated the dichotomy between industry and tertiary, without...
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Labour market and collective bargaining in Iceland : sharing the spoils without spoiling the shares
Sila, Urban - 2017
Iceland has high living standards, low poverty, high inclusiveness and one of the most sustainable pension systems. It is the most highly unionised country in the OECD and, in the past, successful social pacts have protected the lowest paid workers during crises, and on occasion helped fight...
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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization …
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Functional Changes in the Trade Unions. From Intermediary to Fractal Organization?
Doerre, Klaus - In: International Journal of Action Research 7 (2011) 1, pp. 8-48
This contribution deals with developments in German Trade Unionism since the world economic crisis of 2008/09. Internationally, the crisis management of the German metalworker’s union IG Metall is held in high esteem and regarded as a role model. It seems as if social integrative corporatism...
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Trade Unions, Wages and Structural Adjustment in the New German States
Burda, Michael C; Funke, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The rapid wage increases observed in Eastern Germany over the past two years have important implications for the direction taken by structural change in this region. These implications are not solely negative, and remain controversial in the public debate. This paper discusses four aspects of a...
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Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s
Ebell, Monique; Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...
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Wage-setting and capital in unionized markets: Evidence from South Europe
Kazanas, Thanassis; Miaouli, Natasha - In: Economic Modelling 37 (2014) C, pp. 368-376
The present paper analyzes the optimal response of real wages to the installed capital stock in a dynamic monopoly union. We use data from five Southern European countries during the period 1970–2010. We explore how this rent-extraction response changes over time and across countries depending...
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Environmental Tax Reform, Economic Growth, and Unemployment in an OLG Economy
Ono, Tetsuo - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 1, pp. 133-161
This paper develops an overlapping-generations model characterized by endogenous growth, unemployment, and pollution … unemployment benefits, and considers a replacement-ratio-neutral reform in whichthe environmental tax is devoted to cutting the … employees' rate of contribution to unemployment insurance. Under this reform, (i) the growth rate is increased, the unemployment …
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Evaluating Unemployment Policies: What do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …
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