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Herr, Hansjörg; Ruoff, Bea - 2019

Labour market developments have Germany undergone two shocks: German reunification in the early 1990s, and the Hartz reforms in the early 2000s. They separated the German labour market into the traditional rather corporatist labour market segment, characterised by a high degree of coordination,...

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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: Case Studies from Latin America

Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2014

This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …

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The effects of international migration on native workers' unionization in Austria

Antón, José-Ignacio; Böheim, René; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …

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Gender and racial training gaps in Oregon apprenticeship programs

Berik, Günseli; Bilginsoy, Cihan; Williams, Larry S. - 2008

This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its methodological innovation is the use of on-the-job training credit hours of exiting workers as the measure of the quantity of training. Apprentices who started training between...

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Regulated and Non-Regulated Companies, Technology Adoptionin Experimental Markets for Emission Permits, and OptionsContracts

Chesney, Marc; Taschini, Luca - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2011

This paper examines the investment strategies of regulated companies in abatement technologies,market participants' trading behaviors, and the liquidity level in an inter-temporalcap{and{trade market using laboratory experiments. The experimental analysis is performedunder varying market...

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Social democracy and distributive conflict in the UK: 1950 - 2010

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...

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Did PLAs on LA affordable housing projects raise construction costs?

Philips, Peter; Littlehale, Scott - 2015

The cost of building nine affordable housing projects in Los Angeles under the terms of a project labor agreement between the years 2008 and 2012 are compared to 121 affordable housing projects developed and built in the same time period and same area without project labor agreement...

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Social Democracy and Distributive Conflict in the UK, 1950-2010

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

ln the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. ls there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size, and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Wage structure and unionization in the US construction sector

Bilginsoy, Cihan - 2009

comparison with the mechanical trades. Unions also contributed to a wider wage dispersion because they created a union wage gap … and this wage gap increased across the competitive" wage distribution. Unions raised the wages of workers who were located …

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