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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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by the union. We demonstrate that ESOPs create incentives for unions to become weaker bargainers. As a result, the model …
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Before wage-pushfulness can be empirically related to the organizational structure of trade unions, the framework …
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structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and behavior, the determination of wages, technology, and social … of the relevance of the theory and analysis to developing economies. …
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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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This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions for multiple units where bidders exhibitexternalities. The third chapter links risk aversion and information to unraveling inlabor markets.Auctions can lead to efficient...
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Since Hotelling's (1929) seminal work, economists have tried to understand how product differentiation affects price competition. I study the product location decisions, on a vertical characteristic space, of two sets of horizontal competitors when the inputs supplied by the "upstream" set (the...
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of the few private sector service industries with significant union membership (Griffin et al 2003). The relevant unions … largest and largest unions in the UK and Australia respectively. However, despite this seeming numerical strength in … of the study is that any extension of representation and organisation by unions in the retail sector is valuable socially …
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Four essays, or chapters, model the capital structure, governance, and investment decisions as part of a sequential game. Each chapter is separate in its context, assumptions, and conclusions. The titles of the chapters are below.Abstracts of each essay or chapter can be found at the beginning...
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and regional unemployment, I use economist Albert Hirschman’s theory of exit, voice and loyalty to see if “voice … child, pay higher wages, and serve a higher percentage of state-subsidized children. How does “voice” differ in nature and … controlling for wages. Programs with more voice aspects have less teacher turnover. …
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