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Product market competition and trade union structure
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003
Trade unions tend to reduce the dispersion of wages among their members. Skilled workers may therefore have an incentive to separate from an encompassing union and organize into a separate craft union. In this paper, we examine a theoretical model to gain insight into the determinants of the...
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The structure of firm-specific labour unions
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten; Müller, Julia - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767003
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Optimal income taxation in unionized labor markets
Hummel, Albert Jan; Jacobs, Bas - 2018
This paper extends the Diamond (1980) model with labor unions to study optimal income taxation and to analyze whether unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency...
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The credibility problem in unemployment insurance policy
Dur, Robert A. J. - 1999 - This draft: January 1999
If distortions in the labour market lead to inefficiently highunemployment, and policy makers cannot enter into a binding policy commitment before nominal wages are set, excessive inflation may result due to a credibility problem. This is the famous Kydland&Prescott - Barro&Gordon inflationary...
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The political economy of regionalism
Goyal, Sanjeev; Staal, Klaas - 2000
We examine the incentives of regions in a country to unite or toseparate. We find that smaller regions have greater incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union generates excessiveincentives to separate. This leads us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303324
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Unionization structure, licensing and innovation
Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - 2005
Taking technological differences between firms as given, we show that the technologically advanced firm has a stronger incentive for technology licensing under a decentralized unionization structure than with centralized wage setting. Furthermore, We show that, in presence of licensing, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346455
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Efficient progressive taxes and education subsidies
Ewijk, Casper van; Tang, Paul J. G. - 2001
choose a system of progressive taxes and to (partly) subsidise investment in human capital. Acombination of generous …
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Unionization structure, licensing and innovation
Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003233530
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Social (in)stability, distributive conflicts, and investment in poor and rich economies
Riedl, Arno - 1999 - This version: September, 1999
A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies …
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The impact of uncertainty on investment : a meta-analysis
Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond … - 2006
In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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