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Pencavel, John - 2003

After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less consequence in accounting for the decline of unionism than the withdrawal of the state's indirect support for...

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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Disney, Richard - 1994

The authors analyze establishment-level data from the three Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984 and 1990 to document and explain the sharp decline in unionization that occurred in Britain over the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1990 the proportion of British establishments which...

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Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 1998

The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust...

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Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS

Gaynor, Martin - 2011

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … on behalf of the public, and justified on the grounds that merger will improve outcomes. We examine whether this promise … involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be random with respect to future performance. We …

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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy

Davis, Steven J. - 2000

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...

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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana - 2000

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and...

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The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment : The Aggregate Evidence

Blanchard, Olivier - 1999

Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the heterogeneity of individual country experiences. While adverse shocks can potentially explain much of the rise in unemployment, there is insufficient heterogeneity in these shocks to...

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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Sectoral contracts in many European countries set wage floors for different occupation groups. In addition, employers often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions...

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Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency

Cullen, Zoë B.; Pakzad-Hurson, Bobak - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received less attention. To study these...

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Negotiator Behavior Under Arbitration

Bloom, David E. - 1987

The emerging empirical literature on the economics of arbitration has focused primarily on the behavior of arbitrators under alternative forms of arbitration. This article suggests that it is natural for empirical economists to now expand their focus to include issues related to the behavior of...

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