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Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages
Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective 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...
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261982
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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
Palokangas, Tapio - 2003
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...
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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection
Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268688
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Economic growth with political lobbying and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio - 2009
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the economy or the more they can coordinate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269189
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261991
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Electoral rules and politicians' behavior: a micro test
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 2008
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268580
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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269117
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Lobbying, corruption and other banes
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2008
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268635
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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009
candidates are possible - with little effect on market efficiency. Overall, the experimental results are explained by our …
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