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Macroeconomic effects of public-sector unions
Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015
-unionized public sector, namely Germany during the period 1970-2007. The union model is an improvement over a model with exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514579
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Gewerkschaften im Bundestag : gemeinwohlorientiert oder Lobbyisten?
Berlemann, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
US. A recent study by Hönigsberger (2008) for Germany basically concludes union members to overwhelmingly stick to their … contradicting empirical results, based on a newly constructed dataset for Germany. In a VAR analysis we find that the degree of … in Germany trade unions do not seem to be as weak as they tend to claim. -- trade unions ; unemployment ; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873491
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Investment under company-level pacts
Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Hübler, Olaf - 2013
To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments. In order to reduce wage costs company-specific deviations from industry-level wage contracts are concluded. Company-level pacts between the management and the works council...
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Do public subsidies of union membership increase union membership rates?
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020
Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295188
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Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses two complementary approaches to estimate the effect of right-to-work (RTW) laws on wages and unionization rates. The first approach uses an event study design to analyze the impact of the adoption of RTW laws in five U.S. states since 2011. The second approach relies on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334317
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Reforming social welfare in Germany : an applied general equilibrium analysis
Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2003
This paper analyses the effects of a social assistance reform in Germany. In contrast to studies which are based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448867
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Reforming German labor market institutions : a dual path to flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830303
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Opening clauses in collective bargaining agreements : more flexibility to save jobs?
Brändle, Tobias; Heinbach, Wolf Dieter - 2010
Collective bargaining agreements have been said to decrease deployment since the work of Calmfors and Driffill (1988). We investigate empirically whether opening clauses, flexible elements that have been introduced to reduce the decline in coverage, can indeed minimise this effect and increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747561
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Feil, Michael - 2008
Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen von Steuer-Transfer-Reformen in einem konsistent gekoppelten Mikro-Makro-Modell mit heterogenen Arbeitsmärkten. Das Modell umfasst drei Qualifikationstypen, die in der Produktion unvollständig substituierbar sind. Die empirisch geschätzten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874040
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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764076