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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
capital stock, the capital-labor ratio, and the capital share all increase. Shared governance does not raise wage premia or …
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The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
Albanese, Andrea; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - 2017
this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …
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Does Self-Employment Pay? The Role of Unemployment and Earnings Risk
Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2024
This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of earnings and document lower and less dispersed earnings...
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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314827
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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Gregory, Terry - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823558
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The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States
Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Mündler, Marc-Andreas; … - 2006
selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … those of France. Worker characteristics have comparable explanatory power for manufacturing wage variability in the three …
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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...
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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...
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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866559
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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...
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