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Over the past decade, organized labor has played a significant role in advocating for minimum wage increases. In this paper, we investigate the effects of minimum wage increases on union membership among individuals in minimum wage intensive industries. Consistent with a "freeriding" hypothesis,...
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We develop new facts relating news coverage, interest groups, and events in the legislative histories of minimum wage increases. First, we create and validate a database of news articles that includes coverage of minimum wages and organized labor. Second, we show that policy changes predict...
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this be, given that the minimum wage may act as a substitute for the bargaining power offered by labor unions? In this …
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with slaves. Second, we argue that Virginia's suffrage was also the result of political bargaining influenced by shifting … reversing the earlier democratic institutions. Our main contribution stems from integrating the labour markets and bargaining …
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Nonemployment is often posited as a worker's outside option in wage setting models such as bargaining and wage posting … benefit increase, and we can reject sensitivities larger than 0.03. In contrast, a calibrated Nash bargaining model predicts a … bargaining power, with low labor force attachment, with high predicted unemployment duration, among job switchers and recently …
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importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …
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This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i) domestic physcial and psychological abuse, (ii) low...
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In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
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bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent …
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We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … enters bargaining directly. Our results lend support to the tendency towards decentralisation of pay bargaining in the public …
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