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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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Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the Theory and Empirical Evidence

Menezes-Filho, Naercio; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices … that trade unions will ‘hold up’ firms by expropriating sunk R&D (research and development) investments through demanding …

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Trade openness and spatial inequality in emerging countries

Ezcurra, Roberto; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Emerging world countries have experienced over the last two decades a significant change in their trade patterns. Bold trade reforms have been followed by rapid rises in international trade levels. However, despite these radical changes, we know remarkably little about how changes in trade...

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The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment on Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data in Emerging Economies

Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. To this end a unique firm level panel data...

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Labour Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns

Bertola, Giuseppe; Blau, Francine D; Kahn, Lawrence - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

consistent with theoretical predictions. In particular, for both men and women, more extensive involvement of unions in wage … on the relative unemployment of these groups. In contrast, a larger role for unions has insignificant effects on male …

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Insider Forces and Wage Determination

Nickell, Stephen; Wadhwani, Sushil B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper attempts to assess the relative importance of firm-specific factors (i.e., insider forces) in wage determination. Using firm-level data on 219 UK companies over the period 1974-82, it finds that a 1% rise in a firm's prices or productivity relative to the aggregate economy leads to a...

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Strategic Monetary Policy with Non-Atomistic Wage Setters: A Case for Non-Neutrality

Lippi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The literature on monetary policy games establishes that policy makers' attempts to boost employment above the 'natural' rate are futile and result in an inflationary bias when wage setters have rational expectations and the policy maker cannot precommit. This implies that a variation of the...

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Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990 the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth and some of its implications. For the 1990-1991 period I...

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Firing Costs, Unions and Employment

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting feature of this model is that the contract curve is vertical. Some of the predictions of the model are confronted with the available British data on non-statutory firing costs,...

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Relative Wage Effects of German Unions

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

In contrast to the United States or the United Kingdom where union status is generally tied to the job, the typical unionized worker in Germany is a member of an industry union and there is no direct institutional link between union membership and the worker's wage. Using micro data from the...

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