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A cartel analysis of the German labor institutions and its implications for labor market reforms

Haucap, Justus (contributor); Pauly, Uwe (contributor); … - 2006

system of collective bargaining between a single industry union and the industry's employers association. Our cartel analysis … establishment of a fully tariff-enabled union. Such an endeavor must go hand in hand with the institutionalization of a competition …

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Empiricism meets theory : is the Boone-Indicator applicable?

Schiersch, Alexander; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens - 2010

Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical properties. However, the empirical applicability and robust-ness of the Boone-Indicator is still unknown. This paper aims to address that question. Using a rich, newly built,...

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom effects in the determination of trade union membership in both countries … which restrict free-riding on union services. The impact of social custom effects tends to be independent of union density …

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Structural unemployment and the output gap in Germany : evidence from an SVAR analysis within a hysteresis framework

Fritsche, Ulrich; Logeay, Camille - 2002

The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...

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Welfare states, labour market institutions and the working poor : a comparative analysis of 20 European countries

Lohmann, Henning (contributor) - 2008

This paper regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living...

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Capital accumulation, labour market institutions, and unemployment in the medium run

Stockhammer, Engelbert (contributor); … - 2008

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into question recently (Baker et al 2005, Baccaro and Rei...