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Unions, Qualification Choice, and Output
Cardona, Daniel - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the unions' bargaining power on production and wages. In our …
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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 uniform bargaining strength across firms. Using a...
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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 unionization ignore this pattern by assuming a uniform bargaining strength. In this paper, we incorporate union heterogeneity into a Melitz (2003) type model. Union...
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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 uniform bargaining strength across firms. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737334
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Union wealth: the bargaining power implications : comment
Tullock, Gordon - In: Journal of labor research 18 (1997) 4, pp. 657-658
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The labor market effects of trade union heterogeneity
De Pinto, Marco; Michaelis, Jochen - In: Economic modelling 78 (2019), pp. 60-72
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The rise and decline of unionization
Munch, Jakob Roland - In: Economic integration and industrial location in …, (pp. 81-101). 2000
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Efficient wage bargaining in a dynamic macroeconomic model
Böhm, Volker; Claas, Oliver - 2012
This paper analyzes the implications of bilateral bargaining over wages and employment between a producer and a union …. Wages and aggregate employment levels are set according to an efficient (Nash) bargaining agreement while the commodity …, and wages is analyzed being driven primarily by government budget deficits and expectations by consumers. It is shown that …
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Relationship between Leverage and the Bargaining Power of Labor Unions : Evidence from Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Sun Choi, Chil - 2016
This study examines whether a firm's leverage can be used strategically to improve its bargaining position with an organized labor union using samples of non-financial firms listed on the Korean Stock Exchange (KSE) from 1999 to 2013. Through empirical testing, we find that the portfolio with...
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Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
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