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The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus

Addison, John T. - 2010

A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...

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Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance

Addison, John T. - 2015

, productivity, innovation, and survivability - in a RDD framework where the controls comprise establishments that negotiated over … establishment performance. Indeed, the positive effects reported for wages, productivity, and innovation are sustained in …

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The (Parlous) State of German Unions

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper traces the profound decline in German unionism over the course of the last three decades. Today just one in five workers is a union member, and it is now moot whether this degree of penetration is consistent with a corporatist model built on encompassing unions. The decline in union...

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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

Addison, John T. - 2018

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...

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Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance : New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey

Addison, John T. - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages : Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and...

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany : Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T. - 2014

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …

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