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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration
Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020
find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration decreases hires by 12.4% and the wages of new hires by nearly 0 … employers in the retail industry would be most damaging, with about 24 million euros in annual lost wages for new hires, and an …
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Downstream merger with oligopolistic input suppliers
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars - 2002
We examine how a downstream merger affects input prices and, in turn, the profitability of a such a merger under Cournot competition with differentiated products. Input suppliers can be interpreted as ordinary upstream firms, or trade unions organising workers. If the input suppliers are...
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Downstream Merger with Oligopolistic Input Suppliers
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sorgard, Lars - 2021
We examine how a downstream merger affects input prices and, in turn, the profitability of a such a merger under Cournot competition with differentiated products. Input suppliers can be interpreted as ordinary upstream firms, or trade unions organising workers. If the input suppliers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320499
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Labor-market concentration and labor compensation
Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2019
from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis extends beyond wages to rates of employment-based health insurance …
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Revisiting the impact of union structures on wages : integrating different dimensions of centralisation
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2003
In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages … argument will be that negotiated wages rather depend on the technical relationship between different groups of labour and goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448511
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Internationalization of Firms’ Activities and Company Union Wage Strategies
Buccella, Domenico - 2014
Using a two-country duopoly model with homogeneous goods, firms' decisions with respect to international activities (trade vs. foreign direct investment - FDI) in the presence of company-wide unions are analyzed. If firms export, they pay trade costs per unit of the goods exported. If firms...
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Revisiting the Impact of Union Structures on Wages - Integrating Different Dimensions of Centralisation
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008
In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages … argument will be that negotiated wages rather depend on the technical relationship between different groups of labour and goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075964
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How do start-up acquisitions affect the direction of innovation?
Dijk, Esmée S. R.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2021
A start-up engages in an investment portfolio problem by choosing how much to invest in a "rival" project, which threatens the position of an existing incumbent, and a "non-rival" project. Anticipating its acquisition by the incumbent, the start-up strategically distorts its portfolio of...
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Non-horizontal mergers with investments into compatibility
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - 2019
We set up a model to analyze the effects of mergers between sellers of complementary components where firms invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001659
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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry
Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019
This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …
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