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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931419
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Inefficient labor market sorting
Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2023
A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495140
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Unions in Brazil : what to expect in the near future?
Campos, André Gambier - 2016
probably no, at least with respect to labour actors (unions), which face several problems. There are thousands of unions in … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059851
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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2024
This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...
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Union-nonunion wage gap : some unexpected findings in Brazilian labour market
Campos, André Gambier; Moura, Ana Carolina - 2017
This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060370
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the Millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428272
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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018
Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930728
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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021
This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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Off-shoring of business services and deindustrialisation : threat or opportunity - and for whom?
Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003356491
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Layoffs and productivity at a Bangladeshi sweater factory
Akerlof, Robert; Ashraf, Anik; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023
Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. Combining ethnographic, survey and administrative records from a large Bangladeshi sweater factory, we study how workers responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the...
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