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Nonunion employee representation : theory and the German experience with mandated works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2017

Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review...

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The morality of markets : a comment

Ponthiere, Gregory; Stevens, Nicolas - 2024

Dewatripont and Tirole (2024) defend the morality of markets on the ground of an irrelevance result: the social production of moral actions is independent from competitive pressure on markets. No matter how strong competitive pressure is, markets perform well in diffusing signals about moral...

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a mar- ket economy, where earning differentials re ect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...

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Gulags, crime, and elite violence : origins and consequences of the Russian maﬁa

Lonsky, Jakub - 2020

This paper studies the origins and consequences of the Russian mafia (vory-v-zakone). Using a unique web scraped dataset containing detailed biographies of more than 5,000 mafia leaders, I first show that the Russian mafia originated in the Soviet Gulag archipelago, and could be found near the...

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The impact of the energy conservation law on enterprise energy efficiency : quasi-experimental evidence from Chinese firms

Yu, Hongwei; Chen, Wenjin; Wang, Xinyi; Delina, Laurence L. - 2023

that the energy regulation has a positive impact on enterprise energy efficiency. Furthermore, we observe that the effects … of the regulation vary across industries, ownership types, and firm ages. We also find that energy management system … (EnMS) and technological innovation are mechanisms through which the energy regulation helps improve enterprise energy …

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Quantity and quality of work in the platform economy

Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Cirillo, … - 2019

This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers). It first discusses to what extent labour platform can be treated as two-sided or multi-sided markets, and...

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Entry regulation and competition : evidence from retail and labor markets of pharmacists

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Unsorg, Maximiliane - 2021

We examine a deregulation of German pharmacists to assess its effects on retail and labor markets. From 2004 onward, the reform allowed pharmacists to expand their single-store firms and to open or acquire up to three affiliated stores. This partial deregulation of multi-store prohibition...

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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...

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Robots and labor regulation : a cross-country/cross-industry analysis

Traverso, Silvio; Vatiero, Massimiliano; Zaninotto, Enrico - 2021

This work discusses and empirically investigates the relationship between labor regulation and robotization. In …

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Happiness-lost : did governments make the rightdecisions to combat Covid-19?

Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020

Amidst the rapid global spread of Covid-19, many governments enforced country-wide lockdowns, with likely severe well-being consequences. The actions by governments triggered a debate on whether the well-being and economic costs of a lockdown surpass the benefits perceived from a lower infection...

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