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The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
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In this paper we present a search and matching model in which firms invest in sunk capital equipment. By comparing two wage setting scenarios, we show that a two-tier bargaining scheme, where a fraction of the salary is negotiated at firm level, raises the amount of investment per worker in the...
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-skill occupations worsens the bargaining position of unions, which crucially depends on the occupational structure inside a firm. This …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …
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the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
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Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market … economies are discussed. It is shown that dual labour market theory is an important contribution to understanding unemployment …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate under endogenous benefits; (ii) migration of only medium skilled labor has …This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labor market in a … interdependency between the two bargaining processes. Particular attention is paid to medium-skilled migration, which enables us to …
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-tradable sector and features unemployment in general equilibrium. Firms in both sectors use labour and an imported polluting factor of … production ("energy"). A tax on energy, recycled to reduce the payroll tax, will in general affect equilibrium unemployment in … sectoral relative wage is determined by the relative bargaining power of the unions and by parameters of preferences and …
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