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This paper presents an Agent-Based Model (ABM) that seeks to explain the concordance of sluggish growth of productivity and of real wages found in macro-economic statistics, and the increased dispersion of firm productivity and worker earnings found in micro level statistics in advanced...
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Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
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; bargaining centralization …
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We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union models. Based on empirical findings we modify standard models and show that the well-known result that static models overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the...
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This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...
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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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This paper presents an Agent-Based Model (ABM) that seeks to explain the concordance of sluggish growth of productivity and of real wages found in macro-economic statistics, and the increased dispersion of firm productivity and worker earnings found in micro level statistics in advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314332
This paper presents an Agent-Based Model (ABM) that seeks to explain the concordance of sluggish growth of productivity and of real wages found in macro-economic statistics, and the increased dispersion of firm productivity and worker earnings found in micro level statistics in advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479158