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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2014
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high … unemployment under the reasonable condition that the proportion of high-skilled workers is sufficiently low …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836559
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki - 2007
unemployment. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a …
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil I. - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...
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Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2016
This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy...
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The Scarring Effects of Unemployment, Low Pay and Skills Under-Utilisation in Australia Compared
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2013
There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080141
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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining
Dahl, Christian M. - 2011
This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization process provides variation in the individual worker's...
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Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2014
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly ﾖ driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069929
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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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Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014) : An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data
Ramos, Raul - 2019
This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their evolution over time based on matched employer-employee microdata. The primary objective is to analyse the wage differentials associated to the presence of a firm-level agreement and...
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