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Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth
Palokangas, Tapio - 2021
rents and the government can support unions by labour market regulation. We show that if unions are initially very strong …, regulation increases only the workers' profit share and has no impact on employment and growth. Otherwise, regulation increases … faster. Regulation (deregulation) is desirable when the growth rate is below (above) some critical level …
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Unionization, industry concentration, and economic growth
Davis, Colin; Hashimoto, Ken'ichi; Tabata, Ken - 2021
This paper examines how unionization affects economic growth through its impact on industry concentration in a two-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in innovation with geographic patterns of industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793522
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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312945
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International production and wage coordination in an integrated economy (revised)
Buccella, Domenico - 2011
Key aspects in economic integrated areas like the EU are both the internationalization of productive activities, which usually occurs in unionized countries, and the ongoing process of labor market integration. In a symmetric two-country duopoly model with integrated product markets, this paper...
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The future of the French trade unions
Andolfatto, Dominique; Labbé, Dominique - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 341-352
This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the decline of collective actions; the...
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Unions in Britain : merely on the margins or on the cusp of a comeback?
Gall, Gregor - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 323-340
This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse whether collectively they remain on the margins of influence in the economy and society or whether, given and because of the crisis of neoliberalism, they may be on the cusp of a...
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Union organizing decisions in a deteriorating environment : the composition of representation elections and the decline in turnout
Farber, Henry S. - 2014
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...
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Gewerkschaften auf dem Rückzug? : Mythen, Fakten und Herausforderungen
Schnabel, Claus - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 96 (2016) 6, pp. 426-432
Gewerkschaften wird häufig ein baldiges Verschwinden prophezeit. Sie wären das Opfer von Strukturwandel, Globalisierung, dezentralisierten Tarifverhandlungen und veränderten Einstellungen der Arbeitnehmer. Doch sind eher der demografische Wandel, die schwierige Rekrutierung junger...
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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402128
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135314