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Union-Firm Bargaining Under Alternative Pay Schemes: Does Performance Related Pay Fair Better?

Pal, Rupayan - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper compares and contrasts equilibrium outcomes under right-to-manage bargaining (RTM) and efficient bargaining (EB) corresponding to two alternative pay schemes, fixed wage vis-a-vis piece-rate. [WP No.8]. URL:[http://www.gipe.ac.in/pdfs/working%20papers/wp8.pdf].

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Union Wage Effect: New Evidence From Matched Employer-Employee Data

Kang, Changhui - Department of Economics, National University of Singapore - 2003

This paper estimates a union wage effect, using matched employer- employee data and estimation models that control an … association between a worker's union status and an employer's characteristics. Failure to control this association may cause … previous studies' estimates of the union wage effect to be biased. As long as a worker is more likely to become a union worker …

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Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic

Darvas, Zsolt; Rose, Andrew; Szapáry, György - Matematikai Közgazdaságtan és Gazdaságelemzés, … - 2005

Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is, fiscal convergence (in the form of persistently similar ratios of government surplus/deficit to GDP)...

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Impact of labour unions on the merger incentive of firms

Bae, Hyung - In: International Economic Journal 19 (2005) 1, pp. 91-94

This paper analyses the impact of labour unions on the merger incentives of firms. We find that a horizontal merger takes place if there is some synergy effect. However, a vertical merger takes place only if the synergy effect is bigger than a certain size.

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Unions and the use of flexible staffing in korea: evidence from an establishment survey

Lee, Injae; Kim, Dong-bae - In: International Economic Journal 19 (2005) 2, pp. 223-234

staffing arrangements. We find that union representation is positively associated with the employer's use of more flexible … forms of employment. This union effect cannot be attributed to the unobserved characteristics of unionized establishments …, which may promote the intensive use of flexible staffing arrangements. Our findings cast doubt on the claim that the union …

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Globalization, Regionalism and Labour Markets: Should We Recast the Foundations of the EU Regime in Matters of Regional (Rural and Urban) Development?

Molle, Willem - In: Regional Studies 36 (2002) 2, pp. 161-172

Globalization has been accused of being the source of many problems. Some claim that this would justify a fundamental change of the EU regime that takes international competitiveness of the economy as its point of departure. This would have consequences for the present set-up of the EU cohesion...

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Commenting on the Effectiveness and Future Challenges of the EU Local Authority Networks

Chorianopoulos, Ioannis - In: Regional Studies 36 (2002) 8, pp. 933-939

The policy shift of the Structural Funds towards local authority networks constitutes an EU attempt to redirect local economic development policies towards the European level. This article reviews key EU documents on urban policy, outlines the organizational mode of networking initiatives and...

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Three Union Regulations for Environment Protection Agency: A Game with 12 bank notes

Mullat, Joseph - EconWPA - 2001

It is now almost a common truth that society needs to avoid environment contamination or damage become significant for nature protection programs of the government and wild life preservation efforts. A possible outcome of such efforts might occasionally be a voluntary solution, which results...

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Union Bargaining Power in an Efficiency Wage Environment

Ferguson, William D. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 20 (1994) 4, pp. 387-401

This paper merges a cost-based model of union bargaining power, in which bargaining power reflects relative costs of … positively to the real wage. Union bargaining alters the effort/wage relationship to increase the wage for a given level of … effort. The model predicts that employment decline or rising import penetration in unionized industries will diminish union …

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Unions and Employment, Wage, and Hours of Work Dynamics

Brannon, J. Isaac - In: Eastern Economic Journal 23 (1997) 1, pp. 51-60

While it is generally accepted that unions lower employment levels in an industry because of the wage premiums they obtain, there is less agreement on how unions affect an industry's response to changes in output demand. By obtaining a greater percentage of their compensation in fixed fringe...

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