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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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A longitudinal analysis of the union wage premium for US workers
Gabriel, Paul E.; Schmitz, Susanne - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 7/9, pp. 487-489
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The long-run effects of teacher collective bargaining
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - 2016
This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes. Our analysis exploits the different timing across states in the passage of duty-to-bargain laws in a difference-in-difference framework to identify...
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Wage scales and centralized bargaining - a binding constraint on the wage-setting?
Söderström, Martin - In: Applied economics letters 17 (2010) 1/3, pp. 247-250
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Collective versus decentralized wage bargaining and the efficient allocation of resources
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Watanabe, Makoto - 2015 - September 2012
An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...
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Is collective bargaining Pareto efficient? : a survey of the literature
Lawson, Nicholas - 2010
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The impact of wage-setting institutions on the incidence of public employment in the OECD : 1960 - 98
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2002
Using data on 17 OECD countries for 1960-98, this paper studies the impact of unions on public employment incidence, using macrodata and microdata. Macrodata show that greater coverage by centralized collective bargaining institutions raises the public employment share, controlling for country...
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The unemployment accelerator
Blanco, Andres; Navarro, Gaston - 2016
This paper studies the unemployment accelerator, a mechanism where workers directly affect the firms' financial conditions, and, in turn, firms' financial conditions feedback again to the real economy. The unemployment accelerator builds on two key assumptions: search frictions in the labor...
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Wage setting institutions and internal migration : the effect of regional wage equalization in Italy after 1969
Ramazzotti, Andrea - 2024
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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting : threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order … union jobs as part of their outside option. We specify these channels in a search and bargaining model that includes union … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …
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