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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics: A Note

Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - CESifo - 2010

overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big … enough to determine employment for the whole sector, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union’s … time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions’ distortions. …

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The Pain and Gain of Offshoring: The Effects of Tax Progression in a Segmented Labour Market

Rocha-Akis, Silvia - CESifo - 2012

-paying jobs are rationed due to (i) oligopolistic market structures, (ii) insider-oriented unions and (iii) international …. It is shown that the negative effects dominate if trade unions are sufficiently insider-oriented. …

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment. An International Comparison

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2011

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2000. In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...

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The Impact of Market Regulations on Intra-European Real Exchange Rates

Benassy-Quere, Agnes; Coulibaly, Dramane - CESifo - 2013

We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth. An International Comparison

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2007

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...

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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010

unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the …

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Wage Rigidity, Institutions, and Inflation

Holden, Steinar; Wulfsberg, Fredrik - CESifo - 2009

, high-wage workers are replaced by young low-wage workers. DNWR may also lead to a positive growth in aggregate wages … because of changes in relative wages. We explore industry data for 19 OECD countries, over the period 1971–2006. We find …

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Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration

Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2008

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...

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Corporate Taxation and the Quality of Research and Development

Ernst, Christof; Richter, Katharina; Riedel, Nadine - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the impact of tax incentives on corporate research and development (R&D) activity. Traditionally, R&D tax incentives have been provided in the form of special tax allowances and tax credits. In recent years, several countries moreover reduced their income tax rates on R&D...

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Politics-Business Interaction Paths

Belloc, Marianna; Pagano, Ugo - CESifo - 2009

Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...

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