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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...
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Why are there strikes?
Chun, Kyung Nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020
with the union can lead to strikes. Additionally, power asymmetries, reputation-building, and internal union politics can …
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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000
enterprise formation is adversely affected by economic risks, unemployment compensation, union power, and labor protection …
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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?
Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016
In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
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Multimarket linkages, cartel discipline and trade costs
Agnosteva, Delina; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017
We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....
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Labour unions : to unite or to separate?
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we investigate trade union formation. To this end we apply a model with two types of labour where the … interests of both groups of labourers are represented by either a joint (industry) labour union or by two independent group … labourers to form its own independent union; or whether it is in the interest of both groups to have a joint industry labour …
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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing under labour market imperfections
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Stenbacka, Rune (contributor) - 2007
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Union membership and employment dynamics : a note
Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - 2010
We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union … overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big … enough to determine employment for the whole sector, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union …
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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
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The impact of trade on employment, welfare, and income distribution in unionized general oligopolistic equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2010
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