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Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 126 (2006) 1, pp. 1-19

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The pain and gain of offshoring : the effects of tax progression in a segmented labour market

Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2012

Over the previous two decades, many OECD countries have lowered the degree of progressivity in their tax structures. In this paper, I investigate labour tax progression in a world characterised by a segmented labour market where the higher-paying jobs are rationed due to (i) oligopolistic market...

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When will incumbents avoid a primary challenge? : aggregation of partial information about candidates' valence

Serra, Gilles - In: Advances in political economy : institutions, modelling …, (pp. 217-247). 2013

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Insiders, outsiders, and the underground economy

Anderberg, Dan - 2003

This paper considers whether labour market rigidities lead to more underground economic activities. This is suggested by aggregate cross-country data which show that underground economic activities are more strongly correlated with a commonly used index of employment protection than with...

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....

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The insider-outsider theory : a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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Wage determination and the sources of bargaining power

Manzini, Paola; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

the bargaining process itself. This approach leads to a new theory of wage determination. …

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On-the-job training and the effects of insider power

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in...

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Persistent parochialism : trust and exclusion in ethnic networks

Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 55 (2004) 1, pp. 1-23

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The effect of employee stock ownership on wage and employment bargaining

Harbaugh, Rick - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 33 (2005) 3, pp. 565-583

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