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Donado, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2011

Historically, worker movements have played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better health standards. According to our interpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases the average health of workers and thereby the aggregate labour supply. A...

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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms’ desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity: On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2008

We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versusflexicurity - affect technology adoption in unionised firms. We consider both trade unions’ incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology, and firms’ incentives to invest in such technology. We find...

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Trade Unions Go Global!

Donado, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2008

Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare...

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Productivity, Price- and Wage-Markups: An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Manufacturing Industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph; … - CESifo - 2015

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...

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Labor Markets and Capital Tax Competition

Eichner, Thomas; Upmann, Thorsten - CESifo - 2010

Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) are not preserved in the presence of unemployment. In the present paper we challenge this view …

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Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies

Lingens, Jörg; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2006

We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and … unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …

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Labour Market Institutions and their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries

Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2008

performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …

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Does Ownership Affect the Impact of Taxes on Firm Behavior? Evidence from China

Fuest, Clemens; Liu, Li - CESifo - 2015

Does ownership affect the way firms react to corporate taxation? This paper exploits key features of recent corporate tax reforms in China to shed light on the differential impact of taxation on firms under different ownership regimes including private, collectively owned and state owned...

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How to Measure the Tax Burden on Labour at the Macro-Level?

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - CESifo - 2003

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...

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