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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed … of union membership, we generate information on the union density individuals faced in their industry and region. This … time-variant IV suggests no causal impact of individual union membership on job satisfaction. Finally, using different …
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On the Heterogeneous Trade and Welfare Effects of GATT/WTO Membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2020
equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is …
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Gender Discrimination in Competitive Markets
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2022
We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female …
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Welfare-Enhancing Trade Unions in an Oligopoly with Excessive Entry
de Pinto, Marco - 2019
Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business...
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Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization
Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
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Pricing Group Membership
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha - 2020
We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...
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Age Discrimination Across the Business Cycle
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020
A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far...
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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test...
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Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination : A Hiring Experiment
Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022
Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy...
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