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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Card, David; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

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Legal Restrictions on Buyout Fees: Theory and Evidence from German Soccer

Feess, Eberhard; Frick, Bernd; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We perform a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of transfer fee regulations on professional soccer in Europe. Based on a model on the interaction of moral hazard and heterogeneity, we show (i) how the regulations effect contract durations and wages, (ii) that contracting parties...

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Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Feess, Eberhard; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or B), and recently approved ("Monti" or M) differ with...

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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact...

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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu

Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...

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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case

Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...

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Regulating Damage Clauses in (Labor) Contracts

Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We analyze the role of damage clauses in labor contracts using a model in which a worker may want to terminate his current employment relationship and work for another firm. We show that the initial parties to a contract have an incentive to stipulate excessive damage clauses, which leads to ex...

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Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany

Fuess Jr., Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...

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Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria

Fuess, Scott M. Jr.; Millea, Meghan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a corporatist archetype, this study uses an innovative technique developed by …

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