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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...
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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions
Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive markets. We show that trade unions which are unable to internalise the … establishes that trade unions can have a welfare-enhancing role in a world with relative consumption effects …
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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Pencavel, John H. - 2020
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased,...
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The (Parlous) State of German Unions
Addison, John T. - 2006
model built on encompassing unions. The decline in union membership and density is attributable to external forces that have … confronted unions in many countries (such as globalization and compositional changes in the workforce) and to some specifically … insider behavior on the part of German unions. The quot;correctivesquot; have included mergers between unions …
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Slip Sliding Away : Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
Addison, John T. - 2010
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a common model, we present decompositions of changes in collective bargaining and worker representation...
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Union Membership and Collective Bargaining : Trends and Determinants
Schnabel, Claus - 2020
well as the role of changing attitudes of employees towards unions are not fully clear, but the rise of the informal sector …
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Collective Bargaining for Women : How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs
Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2021
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
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The Third Theorem of Welfare Economics : Report from a Fictional Field Study
Nyborg, Karine - 2019
The perfectly competitive market – a hypothetical situation free of market failure – is the basis for the two fundamental welfare theorems, and an important benchmark for economic theory. The radical abstractions of this idea, however, make its full implications hard to grasp. I address this...
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A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences are Ordinal
Stark, Holger; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023
We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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