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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Card, David Edward; de la Rica, Sara - 2004
In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …
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Legal Restrictions on Buyout Fees : Theory and Evidence from German Soccer
Muehlheusser, Gerd; Frick, Bernd; Feess, Eberhard - 2004
We perform a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of transfer fee regulations on professional soccer in Europe. Based on a model on the interaction of moral hazard and heterogeneity, we show (i) how the regulations effect contract durations and wages, (ii) that contracting parties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261926
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Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a corporatist archetype, this study uses an innovative technique developed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262451
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Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football
Feess, Eberhard; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2002
We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 (?Pre-Bosman? or P), currently in use (?Bosman? or B), and recently approved (?Monti? or M) differ with...
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Wage flexibility in ongoing employment relations: an experiment with a stochastic labor market
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Bleich, Sabrina; Güth, Werner - 2007
Facing a stochastic market wage, which is independent of their own hiring policy, employers offer contracts specifying fixed wage, revenue share and employment duration. In ongoing employment relations it depends on the treatment whether fixed wages can be only increased or also decreased. Will...
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The (de)composition of firms: interdependent preferences of corporate actors
Nicklisch, Andreas - 2007
This article discusses the limitations of the orthodox economic theory of the firm as a nexus of contracts. Various experimental studies have shown that the aggregation of individuals in groups changes behavior and preferences systematically. This perspective has been formalized by models of...
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265995
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269616
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Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...
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Impact of rural employment guarantee schemes on seasonal labor markets: Optimum compensation and workers' welfare
Basu, Arnab K. - 2011
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact...
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