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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; …

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill-specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...

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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages : evidence from Spain, 1989-2009

Lacuesta Gabarain, Aitor; Puente Díaz, Sergio; … - 2012

The response of human capital accumulation to changes in the anticipated returns to schooling determines the type of skills supplied to the labor market, the productivity of future cohorts, and the evolution of inequality. Unlike the US, the UK or Germany, Spain has experienced since 1995 a drop...

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Collective bargaining, firm heterogeneity and unemployment

Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Thomas, Carlos

Comparamos el comportamiento del mercado laboral bajo negociación a nivel de empresa y a nivel de sector en una economía de tipo Mortensen-Pissarides con un sector y con perturbaciones específicas a la empresa. Nuestros resultados teóricos principales son dos. Primero, el desempleo es menor...

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Contract staggering and unemployment during the great recession : evidence from Spain

Díez-Catalán, Luis; Villanueva López, Ernesto - 2014

Una caída de la actividad agregada conlleva una reducción de la demanda de empleo, que es tanto mayor cuanto más rígidos sean los salarios. Este artículo examina el impacto de la rigidez salarial en España sobre la evolución del empleo entre 2009 y 2010. La extensión de los convenios...

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Los efectos del salario mínimo interprofesional en el empleo: nueva evidencia para España

Barceló Varona, Cristina; Izquierdo Peinado, Mario; … - 2021

El artículo utiliza diferentes datos y enfoques para analizar el impacto en el empleo del incremento del SMI en 2019. Del análisis se desprende que, tras el incremento del SMI en dicho año, hubo un menor crecimiento del empleo del colectivo con menores salarios. El artículo desarrolla varios...

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ESOP Fables: The Impact of Employee Stock Ownership Plans on Labor Disputes

Cramton, Peter; Mehran, Hamid; Tracy, Joseph - 2005

By the early 1990s employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) had become more prevalentin unionized firms than in nonunionized firms. However, little research has been devoted to examining the implications of ESOPs for collective bargaining. Ben-Ner and Jun (1996) model ESOPs as a buyout option for...

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Sectoral collective agreements: remuneration straitjackets for German workplaces?

Allen, Matthew; Tuselmann, Heinz; El-Said, Hamed; … - 2007

. It also assesses the prevalence of profit sharing and employee share ownership schemes.Findings – Industry …-wide collective agreements are not the burden that they are often portrayed. Actual wage rates and the prevalence of profit sharing … in Germany that often present a homogeneous picture of those relations. For the first time, data on the spread of profit …

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The bargaining system and performance: a comparison of 18 OECD countries

Traxler, F.; Kittel, B.E.A. - 2000

Theoretical reasoning disagrees about what type of bargaining system performs best. We have tested the explanatory power of three competing hypotheses: neoliberalism, coporatism and the hump-shape hypothesis. All of these hypotheses lack empirical support due to two main shortcomings. First,...

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Small and medium establishments and the new federal workplace relations system

Lyons, Michael F.; Mortimer, D. E.; Whiting, Elizabeth; … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2007

hostile towards trade unions, rely on the advice of employer associations, and appear to be uninterested in reforming unfair …

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Forcing German managers to focus on productivity

Klikauer, Thomas - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2005

Purpose ? Aims to test Walton and McKersie?s theory on labour negotiations, specifically in the case of German car manufacturers. Design/methodology/approach ? The research is based on interviews with industrial actors in Germany?s car industry ? an empirical case study. Findings ? The article...

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