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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers
Samuel Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, … - 2022
This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415467
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946241
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959934
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Migration, unemployment, and skill downgrading : specific-factors approch
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country’s labor market in a specific factors two-sector model with heterogeneous labor (low-, medium-, and highly-skilled) and price- and wage-setting behavior. The low- and medium-skilled labor markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126919
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Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation : New Results from Mixed Methods
Berton, Fabio - 2019
studying whether and how firm-level unionism and collective agreements affect workplace training, a key ingredient to … opening the "black box" of firm-level unionism and collective bargaining, we mix together quantitative and qualitative … strategies. Our results suggest that workplace unionism, and especially decentralized collective agreements, favor workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859778
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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages : evidence from Spain 1989-2009
Lacuesta, Aitor; Puente, Sergio; Villanueva, Ernesto - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 4, pp. 457-499
The response of human capital accumulation to changes in the anticipated returns to schooling determines the type of skills supplied to the labor market, the productivity of future cohorts, and the evolution of inequality. Unlike the USA, the UK or Germany, Spain has experienced between 1995 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389035
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Employment and skills in Finland
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian; André, Christophe; Chalaux, … - 2016
Employment fosters equity and economic inclusiveness because those out of work face the highest risk of poverty, and it generates the tax receipts on which the social safety net depends. Further enhancing education and life-long learning would lower hurdles to employment, which are high for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577862
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Evaluation of behavior, skills and commitment, management
Moradi, F.; Jajarmizadeh, M.; Nikkar, M.; Abbasi, N. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 169-183
In this study, the amount of skills, behavior and commitment of managers are investigated. For this study, which is descriptive in nature, the specialization model of Sorice, Ok Oh and Ditton. The statistical sample includes 420 staffs chosen from the four areas of education is the city of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376679
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Education, training and economic performance : evidence from establishment survival data
Collier, William; Green, Francis; Kim, Young-Bae; … - 2008
We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for performance, commercial survival. We develop a model in which managers have varying beliefs about the efficacy of education and training, leading to potential variation in the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784968
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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2021
This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the effects of unionization on the dynamics of worker earnings across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting tax reforms to union due deductions as exogenous shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745267