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The value of worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for use in empirical economic analysis. Applying unsupervised text-as-data algorithms to a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015, we parse legal...

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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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Does labor protection increase support for immigration? : evidence from Switzerland

Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took...

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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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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Wage bargaining and employment revisited : separability and efficiency in collective bargaining

Haake, Claus-Jochen; Upmann, Thorsten; Duman, Papatya - 2020

We analyse the two-dimensional Nash bargaining solution (NBS) deploying a standard labour market negotiations model (McDonald and Solow, 1981). We show that the two-dimensional bargaining problem can be decomposed into two one-dimensional problems such that the two solutions together replicate...

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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …

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Centralised labour market negotiations

Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten - 2013

This paper contributes to the analysis of central vs. decentral (firm-level) labour market negotiations. We argue that during negotiations on a central scale employers and employees plausibly take output market effects into account, while they behave competitively during firm-level negotiations....

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Monetary policy and nominal rigidities under low inflation

Holden, Steinar - 2001

In most European countries, money wages are given in collective agreements or individual employment contracts, and the employer cannot unilaterally cut wages, even after the expiration of a collective agreement. Ceteris paribus, workers have a stronger bargaining position when they try to...

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