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The Career Effects of Union Membership
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; … - 2023
setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
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The Sources of the Union Wage Gap : The Role of Worker, Firm, Match, and Job-title Heterogeneity
Addison, John T. - 2019
evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to …
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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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Welfare-Enhancing Trade Unions in an Oligopoly with Excessive Entry
de Pinto, Marco - 2019
raise wages above the competitive level, output and profits per firm decline, which could deter entry and thus improve …
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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....
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Hourly Wages in Crowdworking : A Meta-Analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Vrankar, Daniel - 2022
number of people worldwide. This development has led to increasing political and scientific interest in the wages that people … crowdworking by conducting a meta-analysis of the prevalent hourly wages. After a systematic and rigorous literature search, we … consider 20 primary empirical studies, including 104 wages and 76,282 data points from 22 platforms, eight different countries …
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Explaining the Decline in the US Labor Share : Taxation and Automation
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2022
This study provides evidence for the US that the secular decline in the labor share is not only explained by technical change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth. First, we empirically find indications of...
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Rush Hours and Urbanization
Seidel, Tobias - 2019
We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
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Working Time Accounts and Turnover
Launov, Andrey - 2019
Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms to smooth their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show...
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Technological Growth and Hours in the Long Run : Theory and Evidence
Reif, Magnus; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F.; Wolters, Maik - 2021
Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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