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Labor Market Middlemen and the Minimum Wage as Collective Bargaining

Hendrickson, Joshua R. - 2016

sufficiently large bargaining cost, even unionization might be infeasible. As a result, workers can use the political process as a … substitute for collective bargaining. In fact, if all workers widely understand the bargaining process, they are likely to see … the minimum wage as an issue of fairness (i.e. low wage workers do not have the same bargaining opportunities as those …

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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The Economics of Labor Coercion

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - 2009

The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are “coercive,” in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We...

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Employment, Markets, Contracts, and the Scope of the Firm

Wernerfelt, Birger - 2015

We look at the economic functions of firms, contracts, and markets and characterize the optimal scope of the firm. Governance structures appear as equilibria and are compared in terms of production costs - determined by a tradeoff between standardization and adaptation - and adjustment costs -...

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Employment, Markets, Contracts, and the Scope of the Firm

Wernerfelt, Birger - 2013

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The Layoff Generation : How Generative Ai Will Reshape Employment and Labor Markets

Huang, Qiwen; Shen, Yifan; Sun, Yuanchi; Zhang, Tony - 2023

This research presents a new metric known as "AI Augmentation," aimed at quantifying the influence of generative AI across diverse job roles, organizations, and sectors. The analysis defies prevailing expectations of job losses due to AI, instead demonstrating a reverse correlation between AI...

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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Labor Market Chances of Whistleblowers - Potential Drivers of Discrimination

Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2019

Whistle-blowers frequently face retaliation after reporting law-breaking activities and end up leaving their employing organization. Our study uses a controlled lab experiment to examine how whistle-blowing affects the chances of future employment when respective employees re-enter the labor...

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Hiring discrimination in labor markets : an experimental study of mood regulation

Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2021

We explore whether there is a link between mood and hiring decisions. This research examines how positive mood affects the discrimination faced my homosexual job candidates compared to heterosexuals. Our experimental design allows us to track the complete hiring process and monitor employers'...

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Housing Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility : Distortion on the Housing or Labour Market?

Hilber, Christian A. L. - 2013

We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule as a quasi-experimental setting, we isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other determinants of mobility. We compare homeowners with self-assessed house...

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