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Business cycle uncertainty and economic welfare revisited
Heiberger, Christopher; Maußner, Alfred - 2018 - Preliminary version
Cho, Cooley, and Kim (RED, 2015) (CCK) consider the welfare effects of removing multiplicative productivity shocks from real business cycle models. In a model that admits an analytical solution they argue convincingly that the positive welfare effect of removing uncertainty can be dominated by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881736
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Firm Heterogeneity and Wages Under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-productivity Firms?
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009
firm heterogeneity under centralised wage-setting, as unions internalise negative externalities of a wage increase for low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298712
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Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany : the deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2018
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810125
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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000
The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781640
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Enterprise Formation and Labor Market Institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2021
The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321174
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Macroeconomic effects of public-sector unions
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015
-sector wage premia observed in Europe, this paper examines the importance of public-sector unions for macroeconomic theory. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514579
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The Effect of Worker Representation on Employment Behavior in Germany : Another Case of -2.5%
Teixeira, Paulino; Addison, John T. - 2004
seeming constant in the Anglophone countries: unions at the workplace are associated with reduced employment growth of around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261937
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Training and Union Wages
Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2004
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262169
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Disability and the unionized workplace
Ameri, Mason; Ali, Mohammad; Schur, Lisa A.; Kruse, … - 2019
The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996480
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Unions as insurance : employer-worker risk sharing and workers' outcomes during COVID-19
Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris - 2023
We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
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