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Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2007
We analyse how different labour market institutions — employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’ — affect technology … adoption in unionised firms. The analysis is cast in a setting of corporate globalisation, where domestic unionised labour face … increased ‘flexicurity’) contribute to making trade unions more willing to accept labour-saving technological change …
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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity: On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2008
’ incentives to invest in such technology. We find that increased flexicurity – interpreted as less employment protection and a …
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Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We analyse how different labour market institutions--employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’--affect technology …’ incentives to invest in such technology. Increased flexicurity--interpreted as less employment protection and a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554238
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Globalisation and union opposition to technological change
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2005
We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adoption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages. Trade liberalisation typically increases trade union technology opposition. These conclusions are reached...
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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised,incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
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North–South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 385-395
We study how incentives for North–South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. Higher union...
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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms’ desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799749
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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are a¤ected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by ?rms? desire to curb trade union power. This will a¤ect not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854369
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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371475
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How bad is globalization for labour standards in the north?
Donado, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2010
We analyse a world consisting of 'the North' and 'the South' where labour standards in the North are set by trade unions. Standards set by unions tend to increase output and welfare. There are no unions in the South and work standards are suboptimal. Trade between these two countries can imply a...
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