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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
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Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in a Small Open Economy
Calmfors, Lars - 2011
the smaller sector and promote high employment …
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Wages and International Tax Competition
Krautheim, Sebastian - 2012
Rent-sharing between firm owners and workers is a robust empirical finding. If workers bargain with firms, information on the actual surplus is essential. When the firm can use profit shifting to create private information on the surplus, it can thereby reduce its wage bill. We study how rent...
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael - 2013
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...
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Worker-Specific Effects of Globalisation
Egger, Hartmut - 2009
from trade and, all other things equal, makes a negative employment effect of trade more likely. Furthermore, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155424
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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 individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...
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Exchange Rate Regime and Wage Determination in Central and Eastern Europe
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
After the eastern enlargement of the European Union due to increasing labor market integration, wage determination and monetary integration in Central and Eastern Europe have become key issues in European economic policy making. Based on the Scandinavian model of wage adjustment by Lindbeck...
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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies
Forslund, Anders - 2013
How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2021
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers’ wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315426
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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression Under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2021
, to keep the relative tax burden per worker constant, has a wage moderating and a positive effect on employment and …
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