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Labor Versus Capital in Trade-Policy Determination : The Role of General-Interest and Special-Interest Politics

Dutt, Pushan - 2003

Trade policy depends on the extent to which the government wants to redistribute income as well as on a country's overall factor endowments and their distribution. While the government's desire to redistribute income itself is dependent on asset distribution, it is to a large extent also driven...

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Generalized Solow-Neutral Technical Progress and Postwar Economic Growth

Boskin, Michael J. - 2000

Using revised, updated, and consistent annual post-World War II data from the G-7 countries developed by us, we econometrically estimate and test alternative explanations of the structure of economic growth in a model with three inputs tangible capital, labor, and human capital which permits the...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N. F. - 2018

though the unemployment rate has returned to its pre-recession levels in many advanced countries, underemployment in most has …We produce estimates for a new, and better, underemployment rate for twenty-five European countries. In most … underemployment remains elevated. We provide evidence for the UK and the US as well as some international evidence that …

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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium : Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?

Valletta, Robert G. - 2016

Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...

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Faculty Preferences over Unionization : Evidence from Open Letters at Two Research Universities

Waldfogel, Joel - 2016

What determines employee preferences for unionizing their workplaces? A substantial literature addresses this question with surveys on worker attitudes and pay. Unionization drives at the Universities of Minnesota and Washington have given rise to open letters of support or opposition from over...

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Accounting For The Decline in Union Membership

Dickens, William T. - 1984

Since the early 50s, the percent of the workforce organized by unions has declined considerably. In the most recent decade that rate of decline has accelerated sharply. In an attempt to discover what factors can account for the overall decline and the further deterioration during the 70s, we...

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Unionism, Price-Cost Margins, and the Return to Capital

Freeman, Richard B. - 1983

This paper examines available industry data on two profitability measures, the price-cost margin and the ratio of quasi-rents to capital, for the purpose of determining the effect of unionism on profits. It finds that unionism reduces profitability and that this effect occurs in highly...

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From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box : Political Effects of Right to Work Laws

Feigenbaum, James - 2018

Labor unions play a central role in the Democratic party coalition, providing candidates with voters, volunteers, and contributions, as well as lobbying policymakers. Has the sustained decline of organized labor hurt Democrats in elections and shifted public policy? We use the enactment of...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...

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Low-quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder : Evidence from Multiple Examiners

de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2016

Low-quality patents are of considerable concern to businesses operating in patent-dense markets. There are two pathways by which low-quality patents may be issued: the patent office may apply systematically a standard that is too lenient (low inventive step threshold); or the patent office may...

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