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Profit sharing generates conflicting changes in the relationship between supervisors and workers. It may increase cooperation and helping effort. At the same time it can increase direct monitoring and pressure by the supervisor, and mutual monitoring and peer pressure from other workers that is...
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This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...
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This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...
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The shadow wage is the social opportunity cost of labor. After reviewing earlier theoretical and empirical literature … of data. We find that the conversion factor for the shadow wage rate is 0.998 in 29 FSE regions (mostly capital cities …
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Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an … effects increasingly matter in explaining the aggregate wage dynamics, i.e. aggregate wage growth has been lifted up by the … increase in the employment weight of high wage firms. To the extent that this reallocation occurs towards more productive firms …
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model, agents are not allowed to borrow against future income. Unlike the traditional assumption of ex post wage payment … to the many-agent Ramsey model with ex post wage payment, the capital stock sequence converges to the steady state stock … timing of wage payment in growth models can lead to significant changes in the stability properties of equilibrium dynamics …
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Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an … composition effects, especially during downturns. This paper seeks to understand the role of firm heterogeneity for aggregate wage … explaining aggregate wage growth and largely reflect shifts of labor from low-paying to high-paying firms, especially in the most …
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We study how politicians' compensation affects the real economy. Specifically, we investigate the effect of legislators' wages on business activity in Brazil. We identify our results using a constitutional amendment that established salary caps for legislators in a given municipality based on...
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