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Optimal central bank conservatism and monopoly trade unions
Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten; Schöb, Ronnie - 2001
OPTIMThe conservative central banker has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...
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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018
Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data …
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Union Density, Productivity and Wages
Barth, Erling - 2017
We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...
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Labor Unions and Product Quality Failures
Kini, Omesh; Shen, Mo; Shenoy, Jaideep; Subramaniam, Venkat - 2021
In this paper, we study the impact of labor unions on product quality failures. We use a product recall as our measure … close union losses. These results are amplified in non-right-to-work states, where unions have a relatively greater … out investments that potentially impact quality. We also find some suggestive evidence that unions may compromise quality …
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Union density, productivity and wages
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2017
We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756733
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Social Movement Theory, Colletcive Action Frames and Union Theory : A Critique and Extension
Gahan, Peter G.; Pekarek, Andreas - 2012
unions …
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The Market for Union Representation : An Information Deficit or Rational Behavior?
Hutchison, Harry G. - 2008
shortcomings. First, labor unions have historically opposed transparency. They are unlikely to welcome additional disclosure … conception of capture would include union hierarchs and their ideological allies who see unions as a staging area for the … free-riding that appears to overestimate the economic benefits that workers receive from unions. Lastly, Professor Bodie …
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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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On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labor relations
Cardullo, Gabriele; Conti, Maurizio; Ricci, Andrea; … - 2023
We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes -that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century- and...
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On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labor relations
Cardullo, Gabriele; Conti, Maurizio; Ricci, Andrea; … - 2023
We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes - that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500722