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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …
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Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification
Dickens, William T. - 1985
This paper investigates the correlates of union success in NLRB certification and decertification elections. The analysis includes a wide variety of bargaining unit, union, industry, and geographic attributes, many of which have not been considered in previous studies. Variables having a...
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Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility : International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms
Lazear, Edward P. - 2007
The returns to talent or performance have grown over time in developed countries. Is talent concentrated in a few firms or are firms virtual microcosms of the economy, each having close to identical distributions of talent?
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Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values
Brügemann, Björn - 2015
The paper revisits the problem of wage bargaining between a firm and multiple workers. We show that the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of the extensive-form game proposed by Stole and Zwiebel (1996a) does not imply a profile of wages and profits that coincides with the Shapley values as claimed in...
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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management … that existing quasiexperimental estimates suggest that codetermination has zero or very small positive effects on worker … codetermination laws using novel cross-country event studies exploiting a series of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010 …
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Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
Cullen, Zoë B.; Pakzad-Hurson, Bobak - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received less attention. To study these...
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Rational Atrophy : The US Steel Industry
Tornell, Aaron - 1997
During the seventies and eighties the US steel industry received trade protection. However, these rents were not used to improve competitiveness. Instead, they were reflected in higher wages and a greater share of profits invested in sectors not related to steel. Moreover, the steel industry...
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The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector : No Policy May Be the Worst Policy
Currie, Janet - 1992
This paper estimates the impact of collective bargaining legislation on disputes during labor negotiations in the U.S. public sector. We use a large national sample of U.S. state and local government contracts to compare the incidence and intensity of disputes by similar workers under different...
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The Effects of International Competiton on Collective Bargaining Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada
Abowd, John M. - 1990
We study the effects of import and export competition on collectively bargained wage settlements and bargaining unit employment from the sixties to the mid-eighties for the United States and Canada. Both value-based and pricebased measures of international competition are considered. We...
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Unions, wages and hours
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine union-non-union differentials in wages and hours in the United States over the last 50 years using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The regression-adjusted difference between union members' and non-members' hourly earnings has been falling since the Great Recession. The...
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