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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534009
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International Trade, Union Wage Premia, and Welfare in General Equilibrium
Kreickemeier, Udo; Meland, Frode - CESifo - 2011
We study how two distinct forms of globalisation, trade cost reductions and opening up of trade in previously shielded … equilibrium (GOLE) with partly unionised labour markets. We find that both forms of globalisation increase union coverage, and … aggregate welfare are affected differently by the two types of globalisation. Trade cost reductions in open sectors always lead …
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Trade, Wages, and Profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - CESifo - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm’s operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - CESifo - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - CESifo - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - CESifo - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671733
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671723
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086453
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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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