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Unions in Brazil : what to expect in the near future?

Campos, André Gambier - 2016

Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless, is it possible to discuss such a role without debating the collective actors engaged in that bargaining? The answer is probably no, at least with respect to labour actors...

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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 high-income...

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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 … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

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Bargaining power and outside options in the interbank lending market

Abbassi, Puriya; Bräuning, Falk; Schulze, Niels - 2017

We study the role of bargaining power and outside options for the pricing of over-the-counter interbank loans using a bilateral Nash bargaining model and test the model predictions with detailed transaction-level data from the euro-area interbank market. We find that lender banks with greater...

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Who's got the power? : wage determination and its resilience in the Great Recession

Vilares, Hugo; Reis, Hugo - 2022

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - 2012

Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...

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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998

The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...

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Wage and employment effects of non-binding minimum wages

Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas - 2010

Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment. Empirical and experimental research, however, has shown that the introduction of a minimum wage can raise even those wages that were already above the new minimum wage. In this...

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Minimum wages and insurance within the firm

Adamopoulou, E rosyni; Manaresi, Francesco; Rachedi, Omar; … - 2024

Minimum wages generate an asymmetric pass-through of rm shocks across workers. We establish this result leveraging employer-employee data on Italian metalmanufacturing rms, which face di erent wage oors that vary within occupations. In response to negative rm productivity shocks, workers close...

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Higher wages and capital intensity: a closer look

Viren, Matti - 2006

This paper focuses on the relationship between higher wages and capital intensity. The relationship itself is by no means a novel finding but we try to provide a meaningful theoretical explanation for the relationship and empirical evidence on its exact nature. Our explanation is the outcome of...

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