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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

performance by union companies. Two industries - automotives and airlines - are used to illustrate these points. If worker …

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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry’s economic …

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

as pivotal input in order to control for their particular contribution to firm-level efficiency. Conceptually, the study … of low-tech industries. However, with regard to firms' technical efficiency, R&D matters for all industries (unlike …

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?

Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

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Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...

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On-The-Job Search and Sorting

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....

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