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Market Access and International Competition : A Simulation Study of 16K Random Access Memories

Baldwin, Richard E. - 1986

ask the following question: how much did the apparent closure of the Japanese market to imports affect Japan's export … otherwise have been uncompetitive both at home and abroad. We find, however, that Japan's home market protection nonetheless … produced more costs than benefits for Japan …

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The Black youth employment crisis

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 1986

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000696142

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 Trade-Off between Wages and Employment in Trade Union Objectives

Pencavel, John H. - 1982

This paper demonstrates that, contrary to a widely-held opinion, the determination of the goals of unions is fully amenable to empirical analysis. A characterization of the wage and employment-setting process in unionized markets is adopted and its qualitative implications examined. The...

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Wage and Employment Determinants under Trade Unionism : The InternationalTypographical Union

Dertouzos, James N. - 1980

This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully characterized as the outcome of a process by which...

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Unionization and Employment Behavior

Blanchflower, David G. - 1989

Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new British data set and shows that, even after the addition...

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Employment, Wages, and Unionism in a Model of the Aggregate Labor Market in Britain

Pencavel, John H. - 1989

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment...

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Crumbling Pillar? Declining Union Density in Japan

Freeman, Richard B. - 1989

This paper seeks to understand the recent decline of union density in Japan from 35% in 1975 to 28% in 1987. The …

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from That in Britain and Japan

Gordon, Robert J. - 1981

.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite …

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