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Unemployment, Real Wages and Union Membership

Schmidt, Christoph M; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide not only with a large labour force, but also with a high level of real wages, a small dispersion of...

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Union Membership and Wage Bargaining When Membership is Not Compulsory

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper develops a theoretical model of the <MI>simultaneous<D> determination of union wages and union membership, and empirically implements the model using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The empirical literature on union wage gaps has long recognized that union membership may be...</d></mi>

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Unemployment and Inflation in Ireland: 1926-2012

Gerlach, Stefan; Lydon, Reamonn; Stuart, Rebecca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices. While there is a break in 1979-80, when the link to...

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Is There A Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?

Barrett, Alan; O'Connell, Philip - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterized by emigration to … compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued … find support for this argument for men. On average, returning males earn 10 percent more than men who stayed in Ireland …

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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Fitz Gerald, John; Nolan, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …

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Ireland in EMU: More Shocks, Less Insulation?

Honohan, Patrick; Leddin, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Despite anchoring the Irish monetary system to a common zone-wide exchange rate and interest rate, EMU has triggered sizable exchange rate and especially interest rate shocks to the Irish economy (albeit not appreciably greater than those experienced under previous exchange rate regimes)....

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Education Policy Reform and the Return to Schooling from Instrumental Variables

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in …

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Coagglomeration and Growth

Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser …

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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries

Giavazzi, Francesco; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …

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New Evidence on the Fertility Transition in Ireland 1880-1911

O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are … comparing Ireland with Scotland and applying the measure to three specially-constructed local data sets. …

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