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Corruption in Indonesia
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2004
reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government … latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are …
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Retenues pour fait de grève
Lenica, Frédéric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
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Leaders in Social Movements : Evidence From Unions in Myanmar
Boudreau, Laura; Macchiavello, Rocco; Minni, Virginia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members' views (consensus building) and actions (mobilization). We study union leaders within Myanmar's burgeoning labor movement. Union leaders are positively selected on both personality traits...
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Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining
Bhuller, Manudeep; Moene, Karl Ove; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this article, we document and discuss salient features of collective bargaining systems in the OECD countries, with the goal of debunking some misconceptions and myths and revitalizing the general interest in wage setting and collective bargaining. We hope that such an interest may help close...
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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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Labor Unions and Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Fang, Hanming; Komatsu, Katsuhiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The United States has experienced a significant decline in labor unions over the past half-century. We examine the aggregate labor market impact of labor unions, the causes of their decline, and their welfare and distributional consequences, accounting for unions' effects on wages and employers'...
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Les bonnes surprises du management interculturel : le redressement spectaculaire d'une entreprise de transport public de Nouvelle-Calédonie
Segal, Jean-Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
During its ten years of existence, CARSUD, a firm in New Caledonia, experienced, an initial period rife with labor disputes between local Oceanian employees and a management from France, and then an astonishing renaissance under the leadership of a young, inventive manager, who succeeded where...
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A Delegation Approach to Regulating Hiring Discrimination
Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We approach the design of anti-discriminatory labor market regulation as a delegation problem. A private firm (the … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …
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La responsabilité à l’épreuve des nouvelles organisations économiques
Crague, Gilles; Paradeise, Catherine; Thoenig, Jean-Claude - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The recent development of networks has engendered both the evanescence of “macro-actors” (i.e., big formal organizations) and new problems related to corporate social responsibility. The concept of “organization” must be redefined and analyzed so as to identify network externalities and...
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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