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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders' opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412195
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with no commitment, under the assumption that the union chooses wages each … entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and …
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protection decreases job creation as well as job destruction. However, in most models, wages are bargained individually between … workers and firms. Using a conventional matching model in which a monopoly union sets wages, I show that employment protection …
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The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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The labor wage is the result of market variables and institutional settings of a country. In an open economy the determination of the market wage rate may be further affected by the extent of international mobility of both factors of production, labor and capital. Labor mobility is represented...
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The labor wage is the result of market variables and institutional settings of a country. In an open economy the determination of the market wage rate may be further affected by the extent of international mobility of both factors of production, labor and capital. Labor mobility is represented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731619
This paper presents conflicting evidence on trends in private sector union and nonunion wages. The BLS quarterly …-nonunion wages. Household evidence from the Current Population Survey (CPS) can potentially reconcile the conflicting ECI … a steep decline in relative union wages, similar to that seen in the ECI. Regression estimates using the CPS, similar in …
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's wage policy and enacted the Code on Wages in August 2019. The reform measures include the establishment of a statutory … code, the Government has now outlined the implementation mechanism by notifying the draft Code on Wages (Central) Rules in … at which the floor and minimum wages are set and the degree of compliance. The paper also examines the proposed …
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