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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...

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Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporist Setting: The Netherlands

Hartog, Joop; Leuven, Edwin; Teulings, Coen - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership …

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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control

Siemens, Ferdinand von - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities

Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce...

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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm

Kok, Jan de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and human resource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on an integration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutional theory, transaction cost...

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Imports as Product and Labour Market Discipline

Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Product Market Competition and Trade Union Structure

Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

incentive to separate from an encompassing union and organize into a separate craft union. In this paper, we examine a … political power in the trade union to extract rents from the skilled workers. Additionally, we examine the influence of several … features of production technology on trade union structure. …

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The Credibility Problem in Unemployment Insurance Policy

Dur, Robert A.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

If distortions in the labour market lead to inefficiently high

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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the R. Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This...

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