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Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003
In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change...
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Product Market Integration, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
2001
Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labour mobility, it may have important effects for labour markets by increasing the mobility of jobs. This creates both opportunities through exports and threats from imports. Is there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262484
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Labor Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining
Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent … contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … overemployment or to under-employment compared with the first-best. On the other hand, in Stole and Zwiebel?s theory of intrafirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262510
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Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration
Andersen, Torben M. - 2001
How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262483
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Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262451
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Bargaining frictions and hours worked
Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel - 2005
A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the proportion of part-time work across countries. The model predicts that the higher the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267457
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Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273751
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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278785
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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Schnabel, Claus - 2015
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513145
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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212568