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Rent seeking and the excess burden of taxation

Kahana, Nava; Klunover, Doron - 2014

The social costs of rent seeking are generally evaluated with respect to rent dissipation. A common assumption is complete rent dissipation so that the value of a contested rent is the value of social loss. When rent seekers earn taxable income, there is interdependence between the social cost...

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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : the impact on productivity and wages

Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...

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Unions and firms' investments : a unified view

Berton, Fabio; Dughera, Stefano; Ricci, Andrea - 2019

In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have positive effects on labor effort, we find that the classic hold-up problem does not necessarily...

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...

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Seeking rent in the informal sector

Kar, Saibal; Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2019

Rent seeking within the vast informal segment of the developing world is a relatively underdexplored topic in the interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment is affected by economic reforms targeted for the formal...

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Pareto-improving structural reforms

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018

Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001

This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...

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Transition with labour supply

Boeri, Tito - 2001

Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … labour supply. Surprisingly enough, the literature on the economics of transition has devoted little, if any, attention to … labour force participation decisions. In the models of the optimal speed of transition (OST) literature, the labour force is …

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The distribution of wages in transition countries

Newell, Andrew - 2001

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

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