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No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander - 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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Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing
Fukao, Kyoji - 2020
In this paper we analyse how labour market institutions and technology affect wagedetermination through rent sharing. To this aim we first extend the theoretical frameworkof Estevao and Tevlin (2003) to account for heterogeneity of labour (regular and non-regularworkers). The predictions of the...
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Schaffen neue Tarifmodelle Arbeitsplätze?
Scheremet, Wolfgang; Busch, Hans Werner; Seifert, Hartmut - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 54 (2001) 17, pp. 3-10
Kreativität den deutschen Produktionsstandort attraktiv zu machen unf für neue Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland zu sorgen. Für Dr …. Für eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Tarifpolitik müsste man allerdings seiner Meinung nach auch "beim Entgelt neue Modelle … "die Tarifpolitik der letzten Jahre …
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Mit expansiver Lohnpolitik die Beschäftigung erhöhen? : Anmerkungen zu der "Münchhausen-Theorie"
Leibfritz, Willi - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 51 (1998) 36, pp. 24-32
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Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2009
According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. This would generate a trade-off between job opportunities and job stability. This paper...
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
-to-average wage ratio, with union density, with the share of first and second generation immigrants, and with income inequality, but … Europe, the minimum wage effect is negative, whilst within Eastern and Southern Europe, the union effect is negative. Various …
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...
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A Theory of Employment Guarantees : Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
Basu, Arnab K. - 2007
Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage it promises, and the ease with which any worker can gain access. An EGS is thus at once a wage guarantee and a rationing...
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Labour Market Regulation in the Eu-15 : Causes and Consequences - a Survey
Siebert, Stanley - 2006
Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained in terms of the choices of the employed semi- and...
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade : Evidence from Brazil
Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2018
How does enforcement of labor regulations shape the labor market effects of trade? To tackle this question, we exploit the Brazilian trade liberalization episode and exogenous variation in the intensity of both the trade shock and enforcement across local labor markets. Regions with stricter...
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