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Trade and Unions : Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in … to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize those stylized facts using a partial equilibrium model that allows us to … evaluate firms' value functions under individual or collective bargaining. Exporting further decreases average production costs …
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The Efficiency and Equity of the Tax and Transfer System in France
Égert, Balázs - 2021
Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...
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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics : A Note
Dittrich, Marcus - 2010
We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union models. Based on empirical findings we modify standard models and show that the well-known result that static models overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the...
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Centralised Labour Market Negotiations
Müller, Julia - 2013
efficiently according to the familiar Nash bargaining solution, we show that central negotiations lead to a lower employment level …
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki - 2007
We study the various consequences of and the incentives for outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour demand increases as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is a result consistent with existing empirical research. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a...
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Equilibrium Unemployment With Credit and Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki - 2007
credit market, loan contracts are negotiated between financiers and firms, both of which have bargaining power, while firms …
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Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
We analyze the following question associated with flexible outsourcing under imperfect domestic labour market: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? We show that in general profit sharing has a negative effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing...
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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …
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Unemployment Insurance in Unionized Labor Markets : Neither Ghent Nor Centralized
Saha, David - 2015
This paper analyzes unemployment insurance (UI) schemes in the presence of mobile workers and trade unions at industry or regional level that are capable of internalizing the effect of wage demands on UI contribution rates. We compare two types of existing UI systems. When UI is organized at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019042
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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut - 2010
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...
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