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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …
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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions
Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only …
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Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
. Unionization appears to raise wages for a given worker while also shifting the composition of the workforce away from higher …
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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one’s own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...
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Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
negative correlation between bargained wages in aggregate and average risk preferences of union members. Our results suggest …
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Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...
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The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain higher wages for their members. We estimate the relationship between … bargaining have lower wages in the presence of agency workers, suggesting that agency workers are hired against the unions. …
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Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy
Goerke, Laszlo; Madsen, Jakob B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an … economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the rent from unionisation. The opposite result applies …% increase in the earnings relationship is associated with a 1.9% fall in manufacturing wages, a 0.6% reduction in non …
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Mehr und bessere Daten für die Arbeitsmarktforschung: Vorschläge zur effizienten Erschließung der amtlichen Statistik
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die ökonomische Beurteilung von Vorgängen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erfordert eine solide und aussagekräftige Datengrundlage. Eine Kerngröße zu deren Verständnis bilden Stundenlöhne. Stundenlöhne erklären beispielsweise, ob und in welchem Umfang Menschen arbeiten und konsumieren, warum und...
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