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Strike activity and centralisation in wage setting
Ludsteck, Johannes; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
"We test the theoretical claim that coordination and centralisation in wage setting reduce strike activity by estimating nonlinear regression models using a dataset of 17 OECD countries for the period 1972-2000. We find moderating effects of coordination on strike activity but the effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592324
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Strike activity and centralisation in wage setting
Ludsteck, Johannes; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
"We test the theoretical claim that coordination and centralisation in wage setting reduce strike activity by estimating nonlinear regression models using a dataset of 17 OECD countries for the period 1972-2000. We find moderating effects of coordination on strike activity but the effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342791
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Employment effects of centralization in wage setting in a median voter model
Ludsteck, Johannes - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
treatment of firms by unions must therefore be ineffcient. We analyse one aspect of this debate in the framework of a median …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592365
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Employment effects of centralization in wage setting in a median voter model
Ludsteck, Johannes - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
treatment of firms by unions must therefore be ineffcient. We analyse one aspect of this debate in the framework of a median …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170512
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Migration, unemployment and skill downgrading : a specific-factors approach
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labor market in a specific factors two-sector model with heterogeneous labor (low-, medium-, and highly-skilled) and price- and wage-setting behavior. The low- and medium-skilled labor markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198603
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Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und der Gender Wage Gap : Befunde aus einer qualitativen Studie
Gärtner, Debora; Grimm, Veronika; Lang, Julia; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
experts in collective bargaining from employers' organizations and trade unions in four different industries. Most respondents …, the gender wage gap plays hardly a role neither in employers' associations nor in smaller trade unions. Larger unions, in … employers' view, a revision should be cost-neutral, while from the unions' perspective, redistribution between occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795476
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A pilot study on the Vietnamese labour market and its social and economic context
Blien, Uwe; Phan thi Hong, Van - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
"This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592437
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A pilot study on the Vietnamese labour market and its social and economic context
Blien, Uwe; Phan thi Hong, Van - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
"This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537125
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Trade and unions: Can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938547
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From deregulation to re-regulation : trend reversal in German labour market institutions and its possible implications
Walwei, Ulrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"From the mid-1980s until 2005 the German labour market was characterised by continuous deregulation. In the period of an improving German labour market, the German governments have since imposed measures to re-regulate the labour market in order to strengthen employees' rights. At the same time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198601