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Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?

Beissinger, Thomas; Buesse, Oliver - 2001

Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive feature of the analysis is the comparison of both...

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Evaluating the search and matching model with sticky wages

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010

Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … cycle volatility and matching the lack of a long-run relationship between vacancy creation and inflation. With regard to …

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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Wage bargaining, employment, and union power: The right-to-manage approach

Böhm, Volker; Claas, Oliver - 2014

This paper analyzes the implications of right-to-manage wage bargaining between a producers' syndicate and a workers' union representing finite numbers of identical members in a monetary macroeconomic model of the AS-AD type with government activity. At given prices and price expectations,...

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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: The quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies

Addison, John T. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-53

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, somewhat greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks: A narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...

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Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Reforms: A Narrative Database for Advance Economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Human capital formation on skill-specific labor markets

Xie, Runli - 2011

Human capital investment is formed through households' endogenous decision, and competes with physical capital investment. Idiosyncratic shock shifts the skilled labor share and changes tightness in both skilled and unskilled markets. Given inelastic labor participation, the model can generate...

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The long-run effects of teacher strikes: Evidence from Argentina

Jaume, David; Willén, Alexander - 2017

This is the first paper to estimate the effect of teacher strikes on student long-run educational attainment and labor market outcomes. We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across provinces in Argentina in a difference-in-difference framework to...

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