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Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring “new institutions” into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …
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demand for skilled labor: technological change in firm‐specific productivity and technological change in labor productivity …. We find that technological change in labor productivity, in the form of higher returns to skill in production, is the … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form …
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We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
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flexibility and productivity with access to decent jobs and social protection. We argue that distinct policy options are available …
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This paper quantifies labor law violations and how the enforcement efforts impact on the compliance level by considering the possibility of different labor regulations being violated simultaneously. The findings for the Peruvian labor markets over the period 2004-2013 indicate that: (i) multiple...
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a result, the bargaining power of labour has increased, wages have been generally rising ahead of labour productivity …
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We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996529
This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...
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ahead of labour productivity, and industrial action (strikes) - the level of which has remained low in recent decades - has …
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