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This paper employs a game-theoretic framework and a comparative historical analysis to study the impact of the Great Depression on corporate welfarism,' i.e., employers' voluntary provisions of non-wage benefits, greater employment security, and employee representation to their blue-collar...
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-theoretic framework in which an employment system is viewed as an equilibrium outcome of the strategic interactions among management …
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican … residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within the U …
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The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
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Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at … best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … that the relation between openness and growth is not a simple one. Using standard trade theory, we find that Mexico has …
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Argentina's policy of devaluation with redenomination in 2002, in contrast to Mexico's policy of devaluation without debt … in the aftermath of Mexico's large devaluation, in which non-tradables producers with high dollar debt displayed …
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Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a …
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The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To this end, we construct a matched employer-employee panel data set by...
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This study considers whether there has been a decline in the attachment of workers and firms in the United States over the past several decades. Specifically, it compares snapshots of job tenure taken at the end of workers' careers from 1969 to 2002, using data from the Retirement History...
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The impact of government social and labor market institutions on economic outcomes have generated a great deal of attention by economists and policymakers in the U.S. and in other nations. The theoretical model suggests that there are trade offs of higher levels of economic outcomes with more...
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