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Collective happiness: labor union membership and life satisfaction
Charman, Crawford; Owen, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Labor union membership is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction in low income countries, but not in high income countries. Evidence suggests that union membership affects life satisfaction in low income countries through better working conditions.
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Short- and long-term growth effects of special interest groups in the U.S. states: A dynamic panel error-correction approach
Cole, Ismail M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The perception of special interest groups as a serious threat to economic growth has strengthened over the years; however, the vast empirical literature surrounding this claim has produced mixed and inconclusive results. This study re-examines the issue incorporating a potentially important...
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Labor Unions, Directed Technical Change and Cross-Country Income Inequality
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Furukawa, Yuichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study explores the macroeconomics effects of labor unions in a two-country model of directed technical change in which the market size of each country determines the incentives for innovation. We find that an increase in the bargaining power of a wage-oriented union leads to a decrease in...
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The Single Mindedness Theory of Labor Unions
canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper I analyse a labor market where the wage is endogenously determined according to a Right-to-Manage bargaining process between a firm and a labor union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single Mindedness theory,...
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СОЦІАЛЬНА ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІСТЬ ВИЩИХ НАВЧАЛЬНИХ ЗАКЛАДІВ: КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ
Smentyna, Nataly; Khusainov, Ruslan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
institutions in conditions of globalization and highly competitive environment. …
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The hispanic globalization of commerce and art in the early modern era
Dobado-González, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article shows some important aspects of a worldwide, historical phenomenon: the globalization of commerce and art … unprecedented interactions. The central role played by the Viceroyalty of New Spain in this globalization has perhaps not been …
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Output Growth and Unexpected Government Expenditures
Escobari, Diego; Mollick, André Varella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Solow’s growth model, as well as financial globalization and trade openness measures for a sample of 56 industrial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258873
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey …, 1981 to 2008. A traditional cross-country analysis suggests that only the social dimension of globalization, the worldwide …, the social dimension of globalization appears to work at the regional level only, while economic globalization (trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258965
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The global labour standards controversy: critical issues for developing countries
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
is argued here that the main cause of this malaise lies in the current processes of economic globalization, which … institutional arrangements for a people-friendly globalization. Specifically, this entails among other things close co …
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Has globalization increased the synchronicity of international business cycles?
Berge, Travis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The past 30 years have been witness to an inexorable change in the degree to which economies are connected internationally. At the same time, the 2007-2008 recession was the first ‘global recession’ in decades. This article explores how international trade and cross-border holdings financial...
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