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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989
Cramton, Peter C. - 1995
It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …
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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use …
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Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets
Ouimet, Paige; Tate, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using administrative data on health insurance, retirement, and leave benefits, we find within-firm variation accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We...
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Uncertainty and Labor Contract Durations
Rich, Robert - 2000
This paper provides an empirical investigation into the relationship between ex ante U.S. labor contract durations and uncertainty over the period 1970 to 1995. We construct measures of inflation uncertainty as well as aggregate nominal and real uncertainty. The results not only corroborate...
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The Impact of Deregulation on the Employment and Wages of Airline Mechanics
Card, David - 1986
This paper describes the effects of deregulation on negotiated wage rates and employment levels of aircraft mechanics in the scheduled airline industry. Firm-specific data for the incumbent trunk airlines show relatively small changes in real wage rates since deregulation,and only recent...
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Optimal Wage Re-Negotiation
Aizenman, Joshua - 1984
This paper investigates an economy in which there are short-term wage contracts that are re-negotiated under certain conditions. This paper determines the optimal frequency of wage re-negotiation and shows that it depends positively on measures of aggregate variability and Phillips curve slope....
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Union Wage Settlements During a Disinflation
Taylor, John B. - 1982
This paper examines the role of union wage contracts in the persistence of inflation, and the implication of these contracts for the problem of disinflation in the United States. A quantitative model of overlapping con- tracts explicitly oriented toward the major union sector is developed. The...
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Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance
Hall, Emma - 2008
Labor market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labor markets. We would predict that this will mean labor supply problems and potential falls...
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Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts
Niederle, Muriel - 2006
A recent antitrust lawsuit against the National Residency Matching Program renewed interest in understanding the effects of a centralized match on wages of medical residents. Bulow and Levin (forthcoming) propose a simple model of the NRMP, in which firms set impersonal salaries simultaneously,...
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