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market size. The union sets wages in function of the firm level labour demand elasticity and the responsiveness of firms to … relocate internationally. If countries are suffciently symmetric lower foreign wages and lower trade costs necessarily lead to … countries it holds that small increases in market size or trade costs makes union wages more sensitive to the foreign wage level. …
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(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …
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Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data … and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local regional-industrial unionisation increases, wages grow. Lay …
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union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …
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Using detailed administrative data from Spain, we investigate the impact of having an initial work experience in an employee-owned firm (EOF) versus a conventional business on subsequent earnings. We find that young workers' exposure to EOFs at the time of labour market entry reduces earnings by...
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The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
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This paper introduces a two-stage union-oligopoly-council model of wage and employment determination wherein at the first stage wage is negotiated through collective bargaining and at the second stage employment in each firm is co-determined by the employer and its works council. We provide a...
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model with integrated product markets, this paper investigates the incentives for unions to coordinate wage demands in the …
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This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
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labour market interdependencies and the consequences of trade liberalisation for union wages. The analysis suggests that … national wages are likely to be strategic complements (substitutes), if products are ordinary substitutes (complements). Under … the assumption of linear demand it is shown that bilateral trade liberalisation always leads to higher union set wages and …
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