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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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The Sources of the Union Wage Gap : The Role of Worker, Firm, Match, and Job-title Heterogeneity
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892193
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Pledge-and-Review Bargaining
Harstad, Bård - 2019
Real-world negotiations differ fundamentally from existing bargaining theory. Inspired by the Paris Agreement on climate change, this paper develops a novel bargaining game in which each party quantities its own contribution (to a public good, for example), before the set of pledges must be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892276
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Wage Bargaining and Employment Revisited : Separability and Efficiency in Collective Bargaining
Haake, Claus-Jochen - 2020
We analyse the two-dimensional Nash bargaining solution (NBS) deploying a standard labour market negotiations model (McDonald and Solow, 1981). We show that the two-dimensional bargaining problem can be decomposed into two one-dimensional problems such that the two solutions together replicate...
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Wage Bargaining and Labor Market Policy with Biased Expectations
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
Recent research documents mounting evidence for sizable and persistent biases in individual labor market expectations. This paper incorporates subjective expectations into a general equilibrium labor market model and studies the implications of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy...
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Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities : Evidence from US-Listed Companies
Souillard, Baptiste - 2022
anything, see their wages fall in the meantime. Furthermore, the inequality-deepening impact of firm entry into tax havens is …
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Inequality and Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Kastis, Yannis; Preston, Ian - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … be very small. We decompose wage inequality into inequality within the immigrant and native group and inequality between …
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How High Can You Climb? Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Earnings Mobility in a Developing Country : Evidence from Thai Tax Returns
Muthitacharoen, Athiphat; Burong, Trongwut - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large … inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance … countries. Using Thailand’s tax return data, we study the evolution of earnings inequality, estimate medium-term earnings …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866378
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079146