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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
performance by union companies. Two industries - automotives and airlines - are used to illustrate these points. If worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822089
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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822463
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe
Messina, Julián; Vallanti, Giovanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822251
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model yields ambiguous predictions on the sign of this relationship. On the one hand, given the number of firms, a deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822410
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822479
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Unravelling Secularization: An International Study
Neuman, Shoshana; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822906
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Immigration: The European Experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416931
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Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416941
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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU
Kaliskova, Klara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214036