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Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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Assessing the legal value added of collective bargaining agreements

Martins, Pedro S.; Saraiva, Joana - 2019

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In this paper we propose a methodology to address this question: we compare the specific contents of collective agreements (except minimum wages) to their equivalent norms set by...

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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017

This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...

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Changes in bargaining status and intra-plant wage dispersion in Germany : much ado about nothing?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2017

A number of studies have reported that union decline is associated with rising overall wage inequality, not least in …

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How representative are social partners in Europe? : the role of dissimilarity

Martinez-Matute, Marta; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, when examining social partners' representativeness, it is important to consider both affiliation and dissimilarity measures. The...

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What do employers' associations do?

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), trade unions' counterparts in many countries. However, besides conducting collective bargaining, EAs perform several other activities that can in uence economic outcomes,...

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Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017

We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending …-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal result is the dominance of the firm fixed effect: the allocation of workers … among firms with different wage policies. For their part, the unobserved skills of union workers have only a modest impact …

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Cross-national comparison of job types : analysis using the EU LFS and Albanian LFS

Drishti, Elvisa - 2021

This paper is dedicated to the cross-national comparison of the labour markets of the EU member countries and Albania. The aim is to establish whether or not cross-national variations in propensities of being hired in a non-standard job are the result of differences in national institutional...

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Run, graduate, run : internationally mobile students' reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe

Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2021

Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...

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