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Imports as product and labor market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé (contributor); … - 2006

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Cross-border mergers and national champions in an integrating economy

Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355552

The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017

non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among … costs of employers "making" voice mechanisms. We draw on "spurt" theories of unionisation to help understand factors … underpinning union decline, including falling costs of employer opposition to unionisation as density falls, as discuss …

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Micro-evidence on product and labor market regime differences between Chile and France

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Lauterbach, Rodolfo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015

Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape firms' operational environment in general and the type of competition in product and labor markets...

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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration

Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020

How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...

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Labor-market concentration and labor compensation

Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the U.S. private sector since 2000. We distinguish between concentration in local labor markets versus local product markets, guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis...

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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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Unions, works councils and plant closings in Germany

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - 2002

This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective agreements on plant closings, using data from the IAB establishment panel. We find evidence of a robust positive association between works council presence and plant closures. The...

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Effects of unionization on workplace-safety enforcement : regression-discontinuity evidence

Sojourner, Aaron; Yang, Jooyoung - 2015

We study how union certification affects the enforcement of workplace-safety laws. To generate credible causal estimates, a regression discontinuity design compares outcomes in establishments where unions barely won representation elections to outcomes in establishments where union barely lost...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449195

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