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Labor market integration of migrants: Hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308294
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World:Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governancenorm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density inthe U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from aformalized union norm to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862581
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Improving employment and earnings in 21st century labor markets : an introduction
Groshen, Erica L.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2019
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138373
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Work hours, social value of leisure and globalisation
Drud Hansen, Jørgen; Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; … - 2010
We examine how openness interacts with the coordination of consumption-leisure decisions in determining the equilibrium working hours and wage rate when there are leisure externalities (e.g., due to social interactions). The latter are modelled by allowing a worker’s marginal utility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935641
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Labor market integration of migrants : hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510576
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Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets : An Introduction
Groshen, Erica - 2019
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859277
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Insights from Behavioral Economics on How Labor Markets Work
Altman, Morris - 2014
I discuss some key issues raised by behavioral economics for better understanding the working of the labor market. Amongst the key points in this paper are: (i) a revised modeling of the labor supply curve, with a specific focus on the target income approach (ii) elaborating on the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050704
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Wages and international factors' mobility
Podrecca, Elena; Rossini, Gianpaolo - 2012 - Preliminary draft
. International factor mobility and domestic market variables, such as unemployment and productivity, interact in the wage setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731619
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Wage flexibility in a unionized economy with stable wage dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … changes in regional unemployment. Accounting for the fluctuations in composition of the employees is important for the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973148
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Monopsony in the U.S. Labor Market
Yeh, Chen; Macaluso, Claudia; Hershbein, Brad - 2022
This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
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