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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World:Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governancenorm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density inthe U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from aformalized union norm to...

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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination …

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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth

Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Subramanian, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...

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The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children´s Long-Term Outcomes

Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze whether the impact of paid leave differs from that of...

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How Do Industries and Firms Respond toChanges in Local Labor Supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbedby the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factorprices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the moreabundant skill group more...

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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions andEarnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

females are disadvantaged in the Serbian labor market in terms ofmoving out of the two undesirable states, unemployment and … interms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, withfemales being worse off in terms of … gender earningsgap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment,and inactivity …

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Collateral Costs: The Effects of Incarceration onthe Employment and Earnings of Young Workers

Holzer, Harry J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper I review the empirical evidence on the effects of incarceration on thesubsequent employment and earnings of less-educated young prisoners...

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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology ofProduction: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact witheach other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect theproductivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather thanrelying on behavioral...

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Multinationals as Stabilizers?Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth

Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth atthe plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals anddomestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case ofeconomic slowdown in Chile as...

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Fun with Matched Firm-EmployeeProgress and Road Maps

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data,it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data...

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