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Works Councils and Employment Growth: A Rejoinder to Uwe Jirjahn’s Critique

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 15 (2008) 4, pp. 427-427

In a characteristically combative treatment, Jirjahn (2008a) argues that Addison and Teixeira’s (2006) finding of a negative relationship between works council presence and employment growth is a chimera produced by the way in which establishment size is measured. We reject his assertion of...

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers' compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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The Sources of the Union Wage Gap: The Role of Worker, Firm, Match, and Jobtitle Heterogeneity

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018

Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find …

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The sources of wage variation : a three-way high-dimensional fixed effects regression model

Torres, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John T.; … - 2013

This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese wage earners over a little more than two decades. The variation in log real hourly wages is decomposed into different...

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The sources of the union wage gap : the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018

Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal - a country with near-universal union coverage - we find …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941280

Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999

market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed … analysis of the process of labor djustment in Portugal, benchmarked to other-country experience. The latter exercise - based on …

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