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Unemployment insurance savings accounts and collective wage determination

Goerke, Laszlo - 2007

determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

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The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain

Pencavel, John H. - 2003

After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less consequence in accounting for the decline of unionism than the withdrawal of the state?s indirect support for...

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Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy

Goerke, Laszlo - 2001

In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...

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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

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The employment and earnings of migrants in Great Britain

Andrews, Martyn J.; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - 2007

Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...

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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk: a cross-country comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

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Obesity and labor market outcomes: evidence from the British NCDS

Lindeboom, Maarten; Lundborg, Petter; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …

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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

. However, whilst the effect of wages is found to be statistically significant, the predicted impact of an increase in nurses …

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