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The differences and similarities of the United States common law concept of “right to work” and the modern development in France of the right to withdraw labor, after the “yellow vest” movement in 2018, demonstrate a parallel diminution of workers’ rights. These changes are motivated...
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from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis extends beyond wages to rates of employment-based health insurance …
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This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the … firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions push immigrants to enter lower-paying and lower-quality firms with …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...
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unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of …
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questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual …
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The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to...
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likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective …
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At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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