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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers' compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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Abwehr ausländischer Staatsfonds: Aktive Industriepolitik oder "neue Schutzzäune"?

Koch, Roland; Brüderle, Rainer; Schall, Gunter; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 17, pp. 3-20

Sollte das Engagement ausländischer Investoren, insbesondere Staatsfonds, in Deutschland kontrolliert werden? Roland … beste Schutz vor politischer Einflussnahme sei der funktionierende Wettbewerb auf den Produktmärkten. Anton F. Börner … Verbesserung des Standortes Deutschland. Das Land lebe von seinen offenen Grenzen und seiner liberalen Wirtschaftsordnung …

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Steigende Benzinpreise: Fehlende Transparenz auf dem Öl- und Kraftstoffmarkt?

Haucap, Justus; Diez, Willi; Otto, Hans-Joachim; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 11, pp. 3-15

Wettbewerb und limitieren die Nutzung des Preises als wichtigster Wettbewerbsparameter. Eine effektive kurzfristige Absenkung der …

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VW, Lufthansa: Verzerrt eine zu große Nähe der Politik zur Industrie den Wettbewerb?

Schepp, Nils-Peter; Wambach, Achim; Schuhmacher, Florian; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 20, pp. 3-15

und Politik entstehen, oder nur das Setzen von guten Rahmenbedingungen für einen funktionierenden Wettbewerb? Nils … Monopolisten oder von staatlicher Industriepolitik aus, sondern entstehen durch Wettbewerb. …

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

Addison, John T. - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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Atypical Work : Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79

Addison, John T. - 2009

Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...

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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2021

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular...

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Wie viel ist genug? Breitbandausbau in Deutschland

Bär, Dorothee; Knauth, Peter; Eschweiler, Wilhelm; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 20, pp. 3-28

Der Weg in die Gigabitgesellschaft: Wie sollen Breitbandziele in Deutschland über das Jahr 2018 hinaus konkret … hin, dass das BMVI gleich zu Beginn der aktuellen Legislaturperiode mit der Netzallianz Digitales Deutschland eine … Germany, benötigt Deutschland einen digitalen Quantensprung und eine mutige, ambitionierte Zielsetzung für seine digitale …

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The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation : Change and Persistence in the German Model

Addison, John T. - 2011

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and longitudinal data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show the overwhelming importance of behavioral as opposed to compositional change and, for the first time, document...

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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T. - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

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