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Endogenous technology, matching, and labor unions : does low-skilled immigration affect the technological alignment of the host country?
Cords, Dario - 2017
In recent years, Germany and other European countries face the strongest immigration flow in their history. Experts unanimously agree that one of the core factors of a successful social integration is the labor market participation of the new arrivals. This paper investigates the impact of...
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Union Myopia and the Taxation of Capital
Lee, Dwight - 2011
After an extensive discussion of the nature of the interactions among unions, corporations, and government, we find that government in granting privileges to workers organized into unions implicitly taxes capital formation. The result has been to lessen the attention business decisions pay to...
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Productivity, price- and wage-markups : an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry
Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2015
bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which … accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the other studies, along with the parameters characterizing a production function …
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Jay Gould, the Union Pacific Railroad and Value Creation
Klein, Maury - 2016
No one in United States financial and business history is as misunderstood, and under-appreciated, as the late Jay Gould (1836-1892). There are a number of reasons for this, primary amongst them is that Gould earned a reputation as the most hated man in America. Two early episodes, the Erie...
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The political economy of monopoly : business, labor and government policies
Machlup, Fritz - 1964 - 3. print.
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Parente and Prescott's theory may work in practice but does not work in theory
Cozzi, Guido (contributor);  … - In: Contributions to macroeconomics 3 (2003) 1
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Parente and Prescott's Theory May Work in Practice But Does Not Work in Theory
Cozzi, Guido - 2008
In this paper we challenge Parente and Prescott's (1999) theoretical framework, which establishes that unions use their control of quot;work practicesquot; to thwart the efficient use of technology in the firms. We argue instead that unions, despite endowing monopoly rights over a technology,...
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Timing of environmental technological choice and trade unions' climate solidarity
Asproudis, Elias; Filippiadis, Eleftherios; Tian, Mo - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 182 (2022), pp. 1-8
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The classical bargaining model for organized labor
Yanochik, Mark A.; King, John T. - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 43 (2015) 3, pp. 375-382
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Unions' bargaining coordination in multinational enterprises
Buccella, Domenico - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 4, pp. 373-392
This paper investigates the patterns of bargaining in multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the presence of labor unions … coordination activities. It derives the bargaining regimes which arise as sub-game perfect equilibria, and considers both … unions’ per member transaction costs may attenuate the conflict of interests between bargaining parties as regards the …
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