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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

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...

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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 … competition à la Dixit- Stiglitz the effect of substitutability on the allocation of resources is independent of the associated … change in competition. Higher substitutability increases welfare, output and productivity because resources shift towards the …

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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....

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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

labour market leads to an underestimation in the price -cost margin evaluated at perfect competition in the labour market …

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Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...

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Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...

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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe: An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001

Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper substantially extends the limited available evidence on existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an econometric multi-country model based on Kahn’s (1997) histogram-location approach and apply it to...

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