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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017

This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price-cost markups), (ii) labor market imperfections (workers'...

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Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Barth, Erling - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...

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Labour Market Institutions and Inflation Differentials in the EU

D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2015

Adopting a simple Phillips curve framework, we show that different labour market institutions across EU countries are associated with significant differences in the response of inflation to unemployment and exchange rate shocks. More wage coordination and higher union density flatten the...

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On the Potential Interaction between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies

Cigagna, Claudia - 2015

unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages … both affect equilibrium wages and employment in destination countries, influencing mobility decisions of immigrants. We … find strong and negative effects of unemployment, employment protection and migration policy on flows. The negative effect …

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Exports, Imports and Wages : Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels

Martins, Pedro S. - 2009

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

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Decomposing the Exporter Wage Gap : Selection or Differential Returns?

Bødker, Jonas - 2018

There is a large literature documenting that workers in exporting firms receive higher wages on average than workers in non-exporting firms. This is also the case for Denmark, where the unconditional exporter wage gap is 3 percent. However, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it...

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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium Across the Wage Distribution

Doorley, Karina - 2012

We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two...

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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...

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Workers' Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality

Carneiro, Anabela Jesus Moreira - 2007

This study investigates real wage cyclicality in Portugal for the years of 1986-98, addressing the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor market conditions for workers' hirings and separations. The results exhibit a moderate procyclical behavior of real wages for continuously...

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