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Globalisation and the Decoupling of Inflation from Domestic Labour Costs
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021
We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has … domestic labour cost changes to core CPI inflation decreased from 0.25 in the 1980s to just 0.02 in the 2010s, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213776
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Globalisation and the Decoupling of Inflation from Domestic Labour Costs
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022
We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has … domestic labour cost changes to core CPI inflation decreased from 0.25 in the 1980s to just 0.02 in the 2010s, while the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080924
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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023
investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a … unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced the labour cost of the first employee by 13%, we find that the number of … first employee with respect to the labour cost is −2.39 [95% CI: −3.45, −1.25] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356485
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The Shortfall in Formal Employee Participation at the European Workplace
Addison, John T. - 2019
Cross-country data are used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in EU establishments with formal workplace employee representation. The desire for greater involvement is smaller where workplace representation is via works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892185
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892227
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Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships
Fahn, Matthias - 2019
This paper explores how a relational contract establishes a norm of reciprocity and how such a norm shapes the provision of informal incentives. Developing a model of a long-term employment relationship, I show that generous upfront wages that activate the norm of reciprocity are more important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870637
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Voice at Work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239560
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Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships
Fahn, Matthias - 2020
This paper analyzes a dynamic relational contract for employees with reciprocal preferences. I develop a tractable model to investigate how "direct" performance-pay (promising a bonus in exchange for effort) and generous upfront wages (which activate the norm of reciprocity) interact over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828785
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Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation
Addison, John T. - 2020
Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832181
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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246467