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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256091
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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255786
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Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporist Setting: The Netherlands
Hartog, Joop; Leuven, Edwin; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256615
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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm
Kok, Jan de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255647
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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 Instituut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256008
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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
Siemens, Ferdinand von - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting controlcan reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows thatintention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differin their propensity for reciprocity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256604
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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance
Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 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?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256662
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Negative Externalities, and Financial Risk: The Case of Climate Change
Busch, Timo; Lehmann, Nils; Hoffmann, Volker H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Certain types of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities can generate an ‘insurance-like’ benefit for firms (Godfrey, 2005). Thus far, this risk management hypothesis has been verified for the effects of firm-specific negative events. We argue that this insurance-like benefit of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256908
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Product Market Competition and Trade Union Structure
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249544
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Imports as Product and Labour Market Discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>British Journal of Industrial Relations</I>, 49(2), 331-361. 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00760.x<P> 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...</p></i>
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