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Wage compression and the gender pay gap : wage-setting institutions narrow the gender pay gap but may reduce employment for some women
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015
pay gap. Among them are skill supply and demand, unions, and minimum wages, which influence the economywide wage returns …
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Slouching towards decentralization : an equilibrium approach for collective bargaining
Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024
Although European institutions and national governments have long pushed for a more decentralized wage bargaining structure, in some countries company or establishment-level negotiations struggle to take place. This paper offers an interpretation for that based on workers' optimal choices in an...
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Wage-employment bargaining in a unionized oligopoly and international market integration
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 1998
In a framework of a n-union/n-firm oligopoly, this paper analyzes the incentive for firms and unions to adopt efficient …
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Trade liberalisation and union wages in a differentiated Bertrand duopoly
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2001
In a framework of a unionised international Bertrand duopoly with differentiated products, this paper analyses national labour market interdependencies and the consequences of trade liberalisation for union wages. The analysis suggests that national wages are likely to be strategic complements...
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Labour Tax Policies and Strategic Offshoring under Unionised Oligopoly
Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2008
In a model with a unionised immobile labour force we analyse how labour taxes and transfers towards unemployed workers are optimally chosen when a welfare maximising government faces oligopolistic and partly mobile firms. We consider two polar types of government: one whose objective consists of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724240
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Strategic Profit Sharing in a Unionized Oligopoly
Goeddeke, Anna - 2011
This paper studies the incentives for firms and unions to establish profit sharing contracts as a strategic instrument … in a Cournot product market oligopoly with decentralized and centralized wage bargaining. Therefore, we examine the … stability of these institutional arrangements and show that unions and firms collectively prefer classical wage contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056148
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Wage rigidity, collective bargaining and the minimum wage : evidence from French agreement data
Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2011
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels in France, we document stylized facts on wage stickiness and the impact of wage-setting institutions on wage rigidity. First, the average duration of wages is a little less than one year and around 10 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310034
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Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from French Agreement Data
Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi - 2010
We highlight different stylized facts concerning wage stickiness. First, in France, the typical duration of a wage agreement is one year. Consequently, a Taylor-type (1980) model appears to reproduce appropriately the distribution of agreement durations. Some 30 percent of settlements stipulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139568
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Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from French Agreement Data
Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi - 2011
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels in France, we document stylized facts on wage stickiness and the impact of wage-setting institutions on wage rigidity. First, the average duration of wages is a little less than one year and around 10 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122674
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Measuring Minimum Award Wage Reliance in Australia : The HILDA Survey Experience
Wilkins, R - 2011
An important group of interest for industrial tribunals in Australia is those workers who are reliant on awards for their pay and other employment conditions. Research on award reliance and its consequences, however, has long been hampered by the lack of good quality microdata. Most obviously,...
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