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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312945
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Labor market efficiency, wages and employment when search frictions interact with intrafirm bargaining
Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent … contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … overemployment or to under-employment compared with the first-best. On the other hand, in Stole and Zwiebel's theory of intrafirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401500
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545528
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580754
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Trade as a wage disciplining device
Persyn, Damiaan (contributor) - 2008
We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771050
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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904912
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Slip sliding away : further union decline in Germany and Britain
Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2010
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a common model, we present decompositions of changes in collective bargaining and worker representation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940346
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339773
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413818
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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