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Flexible work organization and employer provided training : evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018
variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959934
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Collective bargaining and innovation in Germany : cooperative industrial relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2013
longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229933
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Changes in bargaining status and intra-plant wage dispersion in Germany : a case of (almost) plus ça change?
Addison, John T.; Kölling, Arnd; Teixeira, Paulino - 2014
Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage inequality. This association holds more or less across-the-board, at least for broad swathes of recent history. That said, the exact contribution of deununionization is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387708
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The economics of first-contract mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto efficient and proves immune to the insider-outsider problem of...
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Impacts of unionization on quality and productivity : regression discontinuity evidence from nursing homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - 2014
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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Centralized vs. decentralized wage formation : the role of firms' production technology
Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - 2014
This paper is the first to show theoretically and empirically how firms' production technology affects the choice of their preferred wage formation regime. Our theoretical framework predicts, first, that the larger the total factor productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for...
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No extension without representation? : evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the same sector. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions...
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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014
This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...
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Unions and collective bargaining in the wake of the Great Recession
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015
This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to provide summary estimates of the union wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502795