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Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys
Kulkarni, Abhir - 2019
Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858501
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Union Wage and Job Loss : A Cross-national Comparison
Wang, Xiupeng - 2020
What members do unions protect? This question is relevant to an ongoing debate about union wage distribution. This paper investigates how unionization affects the relationship between involuntary job loss and a worker's unobservable ability. Taking advantage of detailed micro-level panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831380
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The interplay between trade unions and the social security system in an aging economy
Friese, Max - 2017
The paper investigates the impacts of demographic change on the financial sustainability of a pay-as-you-go social security system in an economy with unemployment caused by trade unions. Using a simple two-period overlapping generations approach, it can be shown that the trade union behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592074
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Revisiting union wage and job loss effects using the displaced worker surveys
Kulkarni, Abhir; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2019
Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138618
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Firm-level versus sector-level trade Unions : the role of rent-sharing motives
De Pinto, Marco - 2015
' rents via firm-specific wages, average profits are higher under sector-level trade unions. As a consequence, firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299454
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Rebalancing unemployment benefits in a unionized labour market
Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen - 1997
The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two benefit levels, one for short-term and one for long-term unemployed, and a rule determining whether an unemployed is short- or long-term. The purpose of this extension is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536221
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Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline
Boulhol, Herve; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2021
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317547
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Horizontal mergers, involuntary unemployment, and welfare
Budzinski, Oliver; Budzinski, Jürgen-Peter - 2009
Standard welfare analysis of horizontal mergers usually refers to two effects: the anticompetitive market power effect … horizontal mergers are substantially decreased, if involuntary unemployment exists. However, in full employment economies, demand …-side effects remain negligible. Eventually, policy conclusions for merger control are discussed. -- horizontal mergers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003836388
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Horizontal mergers, involuntary unemployment, and welfare
Budzinski, Oliver; Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter - 2009
Standard welfare analysis of horizontal mergers usually refers to two effects: the anticompetitive market power effect … horizontal mergers are substantially decreased, if involuntary unemployment exists. However, in full employment economies, demand …-side effects remain negligible. Eventually, policy conclusions for merger control are discussed. -- horizontal mergers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003849829
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Horizontal Mergers, Involuntary Unemployment, and Welfare
Budzinski, Oliver - 2009
Standard welfare analysis of horizontal mergers usually refers to two effects: the anticompetitive market power effect … horizontal mergers are substantially decreased, if involuntary unemployment exists. However, in full employment economies, demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719113