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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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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...
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How successful have trade unions been? A utility-based indicator of union well-being
Pencavel, John H. - 2008
Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or...
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...
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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002
An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....
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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world: can unions and industrial competition coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Can policy interact with culture? Minimum wage and the quality of labor relations
Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2008
negative correlation between union density and the quality of labor relations on one hand, and state regulation of the minimum … regulation crowds out the possibility for workers to experiment negotiation and learn about the true cooperative nature of … by strong beliefs in cooperation, leading to high union density and low state regulation; and a bad equilibrium …
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Union decline in Britain
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2008
the 1980s. Managerial perceptions of the climate of relations between managers and workers have deteriorated since the …
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
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Flexible Jobs Make Parents Happier: Evidence from Australia
Yu, Shuye; Postepska, Agnieszka - 2020
Recent studies have found that self-reported life satisfaction drops during the transition into parenthood which has been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can alleviate this drop in parental life satisfaction during...
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