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The political economy of collective bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio - 2002
-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be … regulation in the labour market. In such a case, the political equilibrium is characterized by strong union power and right …
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The long-run effects of teacher collective bargaining
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - 2016
This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes. Our analysis exploits the different timing across states in the passage of duty-to-bargain laws in a difference-in-difference framework to identify...
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Collective versus decentralized wage bargaining and the efficient allocation of resources
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Watanabe, Makoto - 2015 - September 2012
An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...
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Stringency of land-use regulation : building heights in US cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Singh, Ruchi - 2018
This paper has explored the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building heights. Substantial …
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The cost of regulatory compliance in the United States
Trebbi, Francesco; Zhang, Miao Ben; Simkovic, Michael - 2023
One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320686
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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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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996–2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...
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Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining
Belloc, Marianna; Naticchioni, Paolo; Vittori, Claudia - 2018
In this paper, we estimate the urban wage premia (UWP) in Italy, with its economy characterized by the interplay between collective bargaining and spatial heterogeneity in the cost of living. We implement a reduced-form regression analysis using both nominal and real (in temporal and spatial...
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Gasoline content regulation and compliance among US refineries
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Nauges, Céline; Thille, Henry - 2012
link between gasoline content regulation and the compliance behavior of refineries. We find that in areas with more … stringent gasoline regulation, there was increased compliance on the part of firms. -- Clean Air Act ; compliance behavior … ; energy markets ; product regulation ; petroleum refining ; environmental pollution …
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