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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance : Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2004

establishment performance. The performance effects of training are indexed not just by individual and median establishment earnings … but also by subjective measures of plant labor productivity and financial performance. Union effects on training are … training on earnings is also detected in both individual and plant-based wage data, although consistent with much recent …

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Unions, training, and firm performance

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2008

, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It also examines the impact of unions and training on earnings and a …-wide training data. A positive impact of training on earnings is detected in both the individual and plant-wide wage data, albeit … only for the earlier survey. Consistent with other recent findings, the effects of union recognition on earnings are today …

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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011

Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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?Atypical Work? and Compensation

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2005

Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...

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The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2003

This paper examines the effects of union decline in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion between 1983 and 1995. As … shown to account for surprisingly little of the increase in earnings dispersion in the private sector for either males or … public sector, unions no longer reduce earnings variation as much they once did by virtue of their growing tendency to …

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Wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Zwick, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium … for men. Finally, the works council wage premium is associated with longer job tenure. This suggests that some of the … premium is a noncompetitive rent, even if works council voice may dominate its distributive effects insofar as tenure is …

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