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Unions, wages and hours
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine union-non-union differentials in wages and hours in the United States over the last 50 years using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The regression-adjusted difference between union members' and non-members' hourly earnings has been falling since the Great Recession. The...
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Discrete Working Time Choice in an Applied General Equilibrium Model
Boeters, Stefan; Feil, Michael; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008
equilibrium setting where wages are determined by sectoral bargaining between firms and trade unions. The model is calibrated to …
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Bargaining frictions and hours worked
Auray, Stéphane (contributor); Danthine, Samuel (contributor) - 2005
A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour … is similar in both economies, the share of part-time work is larger. -- model of search and matching ; bargaining …
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Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked
Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel - 2021
A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318320
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A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997-2007
Askenazy, Philippe - 2021
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
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The Rise and Fall of Unions in the United States
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016
Union membership in the United States displayed a ∩-shaped pattern over the 20th century, while income inequality sketched a ∪. A model of unions is developed to analyze these facts. There is a distribution of productivity across firms in the economy. Firms hire capital, plus skilled and...
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Gender differences in the union wage premium? : a comparative case study
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Nergaard, Kristine - 2016
bargaining power of their union as indicated by workplace union density. In Norway, on the other hand, although a union wage … female-dominated women benefit more than men from the increased bargaining power of the union as union density rises. The …
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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020
wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … the theory with workplace data for Britain and Norway. Results are consistent with the theory: local union bargaining is … positively associated with product innovations in both countries. In Norway, local union bargaining is also positively associated …
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Micro-evidence on rent sharing from different perspectives
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2010
accounting approach and the standard labor economics approach are compatible with distinct labor bargaining settings (right …-to-manage, efficient bargaining, labor hoarding) whereas the productivity approach hinges on the assumption of efficient bargaining. Across … comparable range. We interpret the latter finding as lending empirical support to efficient bargaining as the nature of the …
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Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from three different approaches
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015
Empirical labor economists have resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares this labor economics approach with two other approaches that rely on standard micro...
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