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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...

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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees’ health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584876

Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …

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Finding alternatives to disability benefit receipt

Livermore, Gina; Wittenburg, David; Neumark, David - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-9

This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges...

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More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States

Neumark, David; Salas, J. M. Ian; Wascher, William - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-26

reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … comparison areas to those that are geographically proximate and fails to control for changes in low-skill labor markets that are …

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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264999

The effects of living wage laws: evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns

Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - 2005

employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

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Earnings-related severance pay

Goerke, Laszlo - 2006

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However … employment effects if effort can be varied continuously. A substitution of the earnings-related for the lump-sum component … reduces employment. Thus, the prevalent form of severance payments in OECD countries might have less advantageous employment …

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts and collective wage determination

Goerke, Laszlo - 2007

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. …

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