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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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Why are there strikes?
Chun, Kyung Nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020
with the union can lead to strikes. Additionally, power asymmetries, reputation-building, and internal union politics can …
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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000
enterprise formation is adversely affected by economic risks, unemployment compensation, union power, and labor protection …
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Multimarket linkages, cartel discipline and trade costs
Agnosteva, Delina; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017
We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....
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International comparisons and transfer of labour market institutions
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2002
International comparisons of labour market institutions and their transfer across boundaries have gained in importance. The paper deals with the question of the best way to proceed in making such comparisons. At the same time the question of the possibilities and limits to institutional transfer...
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Unemployment in Germany : reasons and remedies
Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - 2003
This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along with potential remedies. It argues that labor market rigidities along with a generous welfare state in conjunction with certain changes in the economic environment are important...
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Labour unions : to unite or to separate?
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we investigate trade union formation. To this end we apply a model with two types of labour where the … interests of both groups of labourers are represented by either a joint (industry) labour union or by two independent group … labourers to form its own independent union; or whether it is in the interest of both groups to have a joint industry labour …
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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing under labour market imperfections
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Stenbacka, Rune (contributor) - 2007
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Union membership and employment dynamics : a note
Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - 2010
We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union … overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big … enough to determine employment for the whole sector, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union …
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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
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