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Offshoring and the decline of unions
Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024
The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density. Alternatively, a firms' ability to offshore may erode...
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : evidence from the employers' side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191278
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Gradual collective wage bargaining
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2016
This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450764
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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310697
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Disentangling pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : the case of Germany
Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor … productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to … disentangle the relationship between pay and productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413818
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Labor market efficiency, wages and employment when search frictions interact with intrafirm bargaining
Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
large firms and diminishing marginal productivity of labor allows us to show that the two limit cases described above yield …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401500
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Bargaining frictions and hours worked
Auray, Stéphane (contributor); Danthine, Samuel (contributor) - 2005
A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the proportion of part-time work across countries. The model predicts that the higher the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003082107
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Pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : evidence from Austria
Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes … that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with … Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and productivity. There already has been empirical evidence that pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545528
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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015
, productivity, innovation, and survivability – in a RDD framework where the controls comprise establishments that negotiated over … establishment performance. Indeed, the positive effects reported for wages, productivity, and innovation are sustained in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333569
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document...
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