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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment : A Cross-Country Analysis

Addison, John T. - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...

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Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

Addison, John T. - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers' compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation : Change and Persistence in the German Model

Addison, John T. - 2011

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …

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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T. - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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The (Parlous) State of German Unions

Addison, John T. - 2006

German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …

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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

Addison, John T. - 2019

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

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Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany : A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?

Addison, John T. - 2014

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally …

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Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany

Addison, John T. - 2014

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker heterogeneity is dealt with using two establishment sub-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners...

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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany : The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

Addison, John T. - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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