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Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
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Economic Integration, Market Power and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine a common market which expands by integrating new regions. Capitalists are strategically interdependent through the goods market and they improve their productivity through R&D. Production and R&D employ unionized workers. The purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703176
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Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the economy or the more they can coordinate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703641
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Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
Koeniger, Winfried; Licandro, Omar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The effects of competition on growth are analyzed in the recent literature by comparing economies with the same market structure but different degrees of substitutability. In this note, we show that in a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition à la Dixit- Stiglitz the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763546
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Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in this study, using an insider-outsider model and a longitudinal panel of large firms in Portugal....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763848
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Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this 'crowding out' phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...
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Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
Dobbelaere, Sabien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988- 1995. We investigate the heterogeneity in price-cost mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters among 18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566489
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What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review …
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762118
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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703671