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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480363
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Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296828
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Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2008
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264446
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Democracy and FDI
Busse, Matthias - 2003
empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295473
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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten
Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - 2009
unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300891
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Liberalization, democracy and economic performance during transition
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000
liberalization. Second, democracy has a negative effect on growth during the contraction, whereas its effect appears insignificant … apparently go beyond deteriorating economic performance. The level of democracy, in contrast, increases the support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301318
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International human rights treaty to change social patterns: The convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
Cho, Seo-Young - 2010
women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302722
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Subnational resource curse: do economic or political institutions matter?
Libman, Alexander - 2010
, increasing level of democracy has negative consequences for regions with substantial resources. Finally, this paper studies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303841
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Downs' ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie 2.0: Politische Präferenzen und Gleichheitsaversion
Sell, Friedrich L.; Stratmann, Felix - 2011
Nach einem kurzen Rückblick auf das Downs-Modell diskutieren wir anhand empirischer Daten aus Deutschland dessen heutige Relevanz unter Berücksichtigung der aus der Fairness-Literatur bekannten Ungleichheitsaversion (UA). Dabei wird der Begriff der sozialen Präferenzen um das neue Konzept der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304516
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336024