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Helping Workers Online and Offline : Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B. - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet … canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet (www.workingamerica.org); and the UK'S Trade Union Congress's www …

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Will Unionism Prosper in Cyber-Space? The Promise of the Internet for Employee Organization

Diamond, Wayne J.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

the Internet by unions in the United Kingdom and United States, we develop five hypothesis about the impact of the … Internet on unions. 1) the Customized Services hypothesis that unions will individualize services; 2) the Cyber …, Internet recruitment sites, specialized advice centers, and the like, to fill the e-union niche …

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From the Webbs to the Web : The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper shows that in the 2000s unions in the UK and US made innovative use of the Internet to deliver union …

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Globalizing Activities and the Rate of Survival : Panel Data Analysis on Japanese Firms

Kimura, Fukunari; Fujii, Takamune - 2021

This paper conducts a Cox-type survival analysis of Japanese corporate firms using census-coverage data collected by METI. A study of exiting firms confirmed several characteristics of Japanese firms in the 1990s. First, excessive internalization in the corporate structure and activities is...

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Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies

Aguiar, Mark - 2011

We study optimal fiscal policy in a small open economy (SOE) with sovereign and private default risk. The SOE's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions. We characterize a class of environments in which the...

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Capital and Labor Reallocation Inside Firms

Giroud, Xavier - 2012

We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap

Gollin, Douglas - 2013

According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...

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Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016

We study the effect of mean-preserving labor reallocation on business cycle outcomes. We develop an empirical methodology using a local area's exposure to industry reallocation based on the area's initial industry composition and employment trends in the rest of the country over a full...

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Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good provision are decided by a self-interested politician who cannot commit to policies. We show that, as long as the discount factor of the politician is equal to or greater than...

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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share

Brooks, Wyatt - 2019

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We examine this in the context of China and India – two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by...

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