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This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
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This paper examines educational earnings differentials in Canada in the 1980s and compares changes in differentials to … those in the United States. Our major finding is that the college/high school differential increased much less in Canada … gaps narrowed, and age pay gaps increased in Canada as in the United States. The greater growth of the college graduate …
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Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … cost of switching are relatively low. Among the single schemes, share ownership has the clearest positive association with …
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This paper examines the use and consequences of shared compensation plans (profit sharing, profit related pay, SAYE schemes and company stock option plans) in a sample of UK workplaces and firms in the 1990s. The use of these plans has increased over time, in part in response to government...
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characterized earlier decades, and partially closed the gap in income per capita with France and Germany. These gains were mainly … decline of the UK relative to its historic competitors, Germany and France … evaluate the effects of these reforms we compare trends in macroeconomic outcomes in the UK relative to the US, Germany, and …
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In this paper we evaluate the success of policies that were implemented in the 1980s that were designed to improve the workings of the UK labour market. Our primary conclusion is that the Thatcherite reforms succeeded in their goals of weakening union power; may have marginally increased...
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The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s …, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a faster drop than in the rapidly de-unionizing U.S. or in Japan. What … regressions that control for inflation, unemployment, and the manufacturing share of employment, among other variables. As a …
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This paper shows that in the 2000s unions in the UK and US made innovative use of the Internet to deliver union services and move toward open source unions better suited for the modern world than traditional union structures. In contrast to analysts who see unions as being on an inexorable path...
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The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...
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