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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …

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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Booth, Alison L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive models should be used whenever researchers are modelling the …

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Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size

Baert, Stijn; Omey, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the causal impact of revealing pro-unionism during the recruitment stage on hiring chances. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market. When matched with employer and sector data, the experimentally gathered data enable us to test the...

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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Teal, Francis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data...

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Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Trade unionism is a legislative system of organizing workers and raising voices for economic and social goods. As the process of global integration deepens the labour market become more flexible and fragmented, rendering collective organization more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the...

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How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being

Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or...

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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions In the UK Public and Private Sectors

Blanchflower, David; Bryson, Alex - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...

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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

Checchi, Daniele; Peñalosa, Cecilia García - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine what determines differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, the labour share, and the wage differential are all functions of labour market institutions. Next...

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Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

There was a time before the first Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS80) in 1980 when what we knew of industrial relations was based primarily upon small scale surveys and case studies. WIRS80 marked a radical departure in the study of industrial relations for two reasons. First,...

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