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The Regulation of Labor
Botero, Juan Carlos; Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; … - 2021
We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...
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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining
Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2018
Teacher collective bargaining is a highly debated feature of the education system in the US. This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining laws on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes, exploiting the timing of passage of duty-tobargain...
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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union
Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021
This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … assumptions permit investigation of some familiar special cases of union behavior. We find the parameter implications of both the …
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Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
unorganized plants, but by more modest amounts. Overall, the evidence suggests a major role for explicit union wage policies on …
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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
changes in labor outcomes. Successor unions to the official trade unions remained on the union scene. Central government taxed …
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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay
Cassoni, Adriana; Allen, Steven G.; Labadie, Gaston J. - 2021
This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and...
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Staggered Price and Wage Setting in Macroeconomics
Taylor, John B. - 2021
This paper reviews the role of temporary price and wage rigidities in explaining the dynamic relationship between money, real output, and inflation. It summarizes microeconomic data on price and wage setting behavior, and argues that staggered price and wage setting models provide the most...
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The Legacy of Communist Labor Relations
Blanchflower, David G.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
This paper contrasts International Social Science Programme (ISSP) surveys for Hungary, supplemented with related survey data for East Germany, Poland, and Slovenia, with ISSP data for Western countries, to examine the extent to which workers in traditionally communist societies differ in their...
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Public Sector Union Growth and Bargaining Laws : a Proportional Hazards Approach with Time-Varying Treatments
Ichniowski, Casey - 2021
policies and union growth in the public sector. The proportional hazards analysisis performed with data on approximately eight …
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The Quality of Labor Relations and Unemployment
Blanchard, Olivier; Philippon, Thomas - 2021
In countries where wages are primarily set by collective bargaining, the effects on unemployment of changes in the economic environment depend crucially on the speed of learning of unions. This speed of learning is likely to depend in turn on the quality of the dialogue that unions have with...
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