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Long-term firm growth : an empirical analysis of US manufacturers 1959-2015
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2019
Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational "fitness" within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...
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Economic Development and Sectoral Unions in China
Friedman, Eli - 2014
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in China's Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces, the author asks how post-socialist unions … respond to worker unrest and why the development of sectoral-level bargaining has been uneven in different regions of China …-level bargaining, however, experiments will likely continue in various regions and industries throughout China …
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International exposure, unionization and market concentration : the effects on factor use and firm productivity in Uruguay
Casacuberta, Carlos; Fachola, Gabriela; Gandelman, Néstor - In: Testing global interdependence : issues on trade, aid, …, (pp. 54-75). 2007
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Globalization, transparency and economic growth : the vulnerability of Chinese firms to macroeconomic shocks
Oxelheim, Lars (contributor) - 2008
the new exposure to fluctuating rates of exchange, interest and inflation. China has recently adopted a version of the … stakeholders of the firm in a way that should foster further economic growth in China. -- International Financial Reporting …
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Do industrial relations institutions impact economic outcomes? : International and U.S. state-level evidence
Kleiner, Morris M.; Ham, Hwikwon - 2002
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Gewerkschaften im Bundestag : gemeinwohlorientiert oder Lobbyisten?
Berlemann, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2009
This article focuses on the role of unionized members of the parliament. Referring to the famous study by Freeman and Medoff (1984) and considering the more recent literature we first review unions' political power at the example of the US. We conclude that trade unions have not been very...
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They don't get me I'm part of the union : trade unions in the German parliament
Berlemann, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2010
This article focuses on the role of unionized members in parliament. Unions have not been successful in increasing their monopoly power during the last decades in the US. Similarly, a recent study for Germany comes to the result that union members in the "Bundestag" cannot be seen as the...
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Unions, growth and unemployment
Wapler, Rüdiger - 2001
We extend the standard quality-ladder model with heterogeneous workers by including efficiency wages and unions. We find that higher union bargaining power leads to a negative relationship between growth and unemployment. An increase in the supply of human capital, however, on the one hand...
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The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay
Dosi, Giovanni; Freeman, Richard B.; Pereira, Marcelo C.; … - 2020
This paper presents an Agent-Based Model (ABM) that seeks to explain the concordance of sluggish growth of productivity and of real wages found in macro-economic statistics, and the increased dispersion of firm productivity and worker earnings found in micro level statistics in advanced...
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