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Do public subsidies of union membership increase union membership rates?

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for...

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Gender differences in the union wage premium? : a comparative case study

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Nergaard, Kristine - 2016

Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. Adopting a comparative case study approach using nationally representative linked employer-employee...

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Creative destruction, social security uptake and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2019

Does the creative destruction induced by unions entail increased social security uptake? Creative destruction implies the closures of less productive workplaces, and if the regional benefits from this process is not large enough, the displacements caused by workplace closures cause increased...

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Wages, creative destruction, and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Union density, productivity and wages

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...

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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality

Frederiksen, Anders (contributor); … - 2008

management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a … general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the model's key parameters show that the rising management premium is … rising management premium produces income distribution dynamics at the firm level which are similar to those observed at the …

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Human capital and career success : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - 2011

(measured by appointments to top management). First, we confirm the beneficial effect of acquiring general human capital …. -- human capital ; career development ; occupations ; internal promotion ; external recruitment ; top management …

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Why are there so few women in executive positions? : an analysis of gender differences in the life-cycle of executive employment

Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy - 2015

executive employment, which allows for a full characterization of the gender composition of executive management. We establish … that there are few women in executive management because they have lower levels of human capital, are underrepresented in …

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Working hours and top management appointments : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao; Smith, Nina - 2018

evidence with external validity on a positive association between working hours and career success (measured by top management … are more beneficial for career advancement. Specifically we find: (i) for managers, working long hours will help them … increase their odds of top management appointments in the same firm, while not in a different firm, while for non …

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