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Wage determination in the US airline industry : union power under product market constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2006

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …

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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Monkey bars and ladders : the importance of lateral and vertical job mobility in internal labor market careers

Dohmen, Thomas J. (contributor); Kriechel, Ben (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …

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Gender-job satisfaction differences across Europe : an indicator for labor market modernization

Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2005

In 14 member states of the European Union, women's relative to men's levels of job satisfaction are compared by using data of the European Household Community Panel. The countries under consideration can be assigned to three different groups. Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands do not show...

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What women want (their men to do) : housework and satisfaction in Australian households

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2017

The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...

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Healthcare quality and dementia risk

Aravena, José M.; Chen, Xi; Levy, Becca - 2024

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

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Are the upwardly-mobile more Left-wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and...

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Fifty years of mincer earnings regressions

Heckman, James J. (contributor); Lochner, Lance (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A structural empirical model of firm growth, learning, and survival

Abbring, Jaap H. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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