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Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States

Eamets, Raul; Masso, Jaan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment protection regulation, one of the most relevant aspects of labour market flexibility, and the degree of its actual...

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Labor Disputes and Labor Flows

Fraisse, Henri; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...

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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market

Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...

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Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the introduction of collective performance related...

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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly … unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

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The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?

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

In this Article, we ask whether the National Labor Relations Act, enacted over 70 years ago, can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the dominant form of workplace governance. The best opportunity for the NLRA’s continued relevance is the modification...

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Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

payments and examine the impact of unions on these choices. To do so, we use a search and matching model with risk averse … the job finding rate. Unions opt for higher levels of severance pay given that their higher wage demands imply reduced job …

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An Analysis of Labour Adjustment Costs in Unionized Economies

Modesto, Leonor; Thomas, Jonathan P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this paper we conduct a theoretical analysis of the implications of a union which can exploit the existence of firm labour adjustment costs. We consider a model involving a large number of identical firms facing a single, economy-wide union. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with...

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