Klappentext: Auch drei Jahrzehnte nach der deutsch-deutschen Vereinigung gilt die Tarif-, Lohn- und Leistungspolitik der DDR weitgehend als »black box«. Robert Hinke widmet sich diesem Forschungsdesiderat am Beispiel der Metall- und Elektroindustrie historisch-soziologisch und zeichnet die...

This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....

If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing effect), there will be excessive entry into a Cournot oligopoly for a homogeneous commodity. However, input markets are often imperfectly competitive and the price of labor is determined by...