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wages. This paper also contributes to the wider literature by providing the first estimates of the longitudinal gain (loss …) associated with joining (leaving) a union with respect to non-wage benefits. The findings show joining (leaving) a union … increases (decreases) the probability of being in receipt of legally guaranteed benefits such as bonuses and paid holidays. This …
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This chapter focuses on the lessons learned from four decades of studying the relationship between unions and job …
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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understand better the nature of RS in the country: it involves an element of risk sharing, as wages also decrease when profits … fall; RS is lower in regions with more latent competition from rural workers; higher minimum wages tend to reduce RS; and …, while employer labour market power reduces wages, it increases RS. Overall, despite its importance, RS in China is smaller …
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Decentralised bargaining is an important wage setting mechanism that promotes wage flexibility which in turn determines how earnings and employment are affected by economic shocks. We investigate the impact of the 2011 industrial relations reform in Greece that allowed firms with less than 50...
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The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as well as the controversies surrounding the conclusions of … existing empirical research. Although it is difficult to draw firm and general conclusions on the effects of unions on firm …
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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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change in the Swedish pension system that highlighted a five-year payout on the expense of a life annuity not only increased …
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