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The career effects of union membership
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; … - 2023
setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …
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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020
representation on the corporate board. However, these gains in wages and declines in earnings risk are not caused by worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392177
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Globalization, wage polarization, and the unstable great ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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What does codetermination do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550209
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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this decline are the growth of part-time labor, the reform of the benefit system and wage moderation. Nevertheless, in 2002 the unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased...
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Wage effects of employer : mediated transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a …. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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High-pressure, high-paying jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
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Does self-employment pay? : the role of unemployment and earnings risk
Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2024
This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of earnings and document lower and less dispersed earnings...
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Optimal income taxation in unionized labor markets
Hummel, Albert Jan; Jacobs, Bas - 2018
unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency costs of income redistribution, because unemployment benefits and income taxes …This paper extends the Diamond (1980) model with labor unions to study optimal income taxation and to analyze whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888710
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Call me rep! : how unions overcame the free-rider problem
Murphy, Richard - 2017
opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the …
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