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Trade and unions : can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in …

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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...

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Monopsony makes firms not only small but also unproductive : why East-Germany has not converged

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Stüber, Heiko; … - 2022

When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power - some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....

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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers

Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2021

This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the … of unions as alleviating market failures induced by imperfect competition. To validate our findings and examine …

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Labor unions and the electoral consequences of trade liberalization

Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021

institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … mechanism in two steps. First, we show that union presence - proxied by the number of workers directly employed by unions, by … political parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of …

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Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...

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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

, we go over some more recent ones. When a strike changes the future strategic positions of unions relative to firms …

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Welfare benefit reforms and employment

Aloi, Marta; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel - 2017

We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...

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Call me rep! : how unions overcame the free-rider problem

Murphy, Richard - 2017

This paper proposes an explanation of why union membership has been increasing in some occupations, despite the opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the perceived risk of allegations. Using media reports on...

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