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Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - CESifo - 2013

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - CESifo - 1999

international conflict. In this paper, we investigate whether this motive is sufficiently important for war to persist in … Immanuel Kant (1795, 1991) always exists. The reason is that in the absence of the threat of war, leaders are unable to divert … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …

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Towards Behavioral Political Economy of Institutional Change: With Field Facts from China

Zhang, Yongjing; Wang, Mei - CESifo - 2014

This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...

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Can Immigrant Employment Alleviate the Demographic Burden? The Role of Union Centralization

Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of labor immigration on public pensions when wage setting by a centralized trade union leads to unemployment. It is shown that immigration improves the financial soundness of pay-as-you-go pensions if and only if it diminishes total employment. This occurs if...

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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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Trade Union Objectives and Economic Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Wigger, Berthold U. - CESifo - 2001

A trade union whose purpose is to raise wages above the competitive level may foster economic growth if it succeeds in shifting income away from the owners of capital to the workers and if the workers' marginal propensity to save exceeds the one of capitalists. We make this point in an...

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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - CESifo - 2013

Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...

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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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How Trade Unions Increase Welfare

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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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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