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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008
. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269376
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328902
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Micro-evidence on rent sharing from different perspectives
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare across-industry heterogeneity in rent-sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269757
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Treating equals unequally: incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274018
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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274657
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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others? trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262533
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Oligopoly and outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - 2005
With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267667
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The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822930
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Are occupations paid what they are worth? An econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel data from Belgium for the years 1999-2006 to examine occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280673
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Wages and the bargaining regime under multi-level bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, François - 2006
by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi …-employer bargaining, single-employer bargaining has a positive effect both on wage levels and on wage dispersion in Belgium and in Denmark … in Belgium and Denmark, single-employer bargaining is used to adapt pay to the specific needs of the firm while, in Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267286