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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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No extension without representation? : evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated amongst non-affiliated firms. The lack of …
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The inefficiency of employment and the case for workplace democracy
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2021
While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and …
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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...
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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality
Helm, Ines; Koch, Nikolas; Rohlf, Alexander - 2023
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...
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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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The miracle drugs : hormone replacement therapy and labor market behavior of middle-aged women
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2014
In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly … important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of … in HRT use. Our results indicate substantial benefits of HRT use to the short-term employment of middle-aged women. …
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …
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