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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...

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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Market Integration, Wage Concentration, and the Cost and Volume of Traded Machines

Edwards, T. Huw; Perroni, Carlo - CESifo - 2014

on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - CESifo - 2014

trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … features obtained from German linked employer-employee data, we investigate how falling trade costs and institutional reforms … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

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Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2009

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - CESifo - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jimeno, Juan F. - CESifo - 2011

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...

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The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect - How to Solve the German Puzzle

Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2006

Germany is the laggard of Europe, yet the country is world champion in merchandise exports. The paper tries to solve this theoretical and empirical puzzle by diagnosing a “pathological export boom” and a “bazaar effect”. Excessively high wages defended by unions and the welfare state...

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Zooming Out: The Trade Effect of the Euro in Historical Perspective

Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2005

itself) to a sizable and statistically significant increase in trade between the member countries of EMU. In this paper, we … put the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective. We argue that the creation of the EMU was a continuation (or … strong evidence of a gradual increase in trade intensity between European countries. Once we control for this trend in trade …

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Integration and Search Unemployment: An Analysis of Eastern EU Enlargement

Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2000

The paper develops a unified general equilibrium model including savings with overlapping generations, investment and search unemployment. Long-run analytical results for the small open economy identify capital accumulation as a prime transmission channel. The effects of integration on...

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