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The labor market effects of trade union heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - 2018
Empirical evidence suggests that the bargaining power of trade unions differs across firms and sectors. Standard models … of all unions and (ii) trade liberalization. We show that union heterogeneity unambiguously reduces the negative … employment effects of stronger unions. Firm-specific bargaining power creates a link between unionization and the entry and exit …
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Firm selection and the role of union heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that high-productivity firms face stronger trade unions than low-productivity firms. Then a … policy that puts all unions into a better bargaining position is no longer neutral for firm selection as in models with a … increases unemployment because firms with the least powerful labor unions have to leave the market. …
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Firm Selection and the Role of Union Heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that high-productivity firms face stronger trade unions than low-productivity firms. Then a … policy that puts all unions into a better bargaining position is no longer neutral for firm selection as in models with a … increases unemployment because firms with the least powerful labor unions have to leave the market. …
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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 is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2017
Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the …
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966443
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Employment stability via annualized hours contracts?
Carstensen, Vivian - 2000
The presented paper proves that working time arrangements, which include hours flexibility and enable hours deposits, are appealing under product market uncertainty. The model integrates efficiency wage arguments into an implicit insurance-contract environment, thus extending the existing...
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Alternative Flexibilisierungsstrategien der Beschäftigung
Carstensen, Vivian - 1999
Dieser Beitrag wägt Vorteile und Nachteile verschiedener Flexibilisierungsstrategien ab, die der Stabilisierung des Beschäftigungsniveaus dienen. Insgesamt zeigt sich, daß Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung durch Arbeitszeitkonten alternativen kurzfristig ausgerichteten Anpassungsmechanismen aus...
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Beschäftigungssicherung durch Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung?
Carstensen, Vivian - 1999
Der vorliegende Beitrag begründet die Vorteilhaftigkeit von Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung bei Produktmarktunsicherheiten theoretisch über die Existenz von Arbeitszeitkonten. Das Arbeitszeitkonten Modell kombiniert dabei effizienzlohn und versicherungstheoretische Aspekte. Die Lösungen sind...
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