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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
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 collective...
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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
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Why are there strikes?
Chun, Kyung Nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020
Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it was thought that they were a result of mistakes or irrationality. Then, during the 1980s an explosion of research brought asymmetric information to prominence as a significant...
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The shortfall in formal employee participation at the European workplace
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
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.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
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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Industry concentration and workers' wage levels
Zhou, Ruizhu - In: Finance research letters 66 (2024), pp. 1-7
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Gift exchange in the workplace : money or attention?
Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008
convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions
Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013
incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive markets. We show that trade unions which are unable to internalise the …
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Welfare-enhancing trade unions in an oligopoly with excessive entry
De Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - 2019
evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per …
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