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Product Market Integration and Wages: Evidence from a Cross-Section of Manufacturing Establishments in the United Kingdom

Driffill, John; Meschi, Meloria; Ulph, Alistair Mitchell - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Theory predicts that when economies become more integrated through the removal of tariff and other barriers to trade, resulting in an increase in competition in product markets, there should be effects on wage and employment outcomes in labour markets, particularly those in which unions are...

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On the Benefits from Rigid Labour Markets: Norms, Market Failures, and Social Insurance.

Agell, J. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too simplistic. First, the ecidence suggests that deeply rooted social customs are an important cause of wage rigidity, going beyonf the legal constraints emphasized in the political...

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Professionalism in the Canadian P/IR Function.

Kumar, P. - Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Research … - 1980

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Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance

Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change...

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Syndrome, miracle, modèle polder et autres spécificités néerlandaises

Jean, Sébastien - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2000

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Employment: The Lessons from the Netherlands

Jean, Sébastien - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2000) 187

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National and sectoral factors in wage formation in Central and Eastern Europe

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Onaran, Özlem - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2006

The paper investigates the formation of wages in the New Member States in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular the question what the relative role of national and sectoral factors is. While the labor relations in these countries are still in the process of change, some pattern and national...

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Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We argue that inequality and rapid deunionization are related, and that skill-biased technical change has been an … important factor in deunionization as well as in the rise in inequality. Skill-biased technical change causes deunionization … support of unions. Our approach implies that although deunionization is not the underlying cause of the increase in inequality …

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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics

Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across ﬁrms, and how that subsequently inﬂuences the performance of ﬁrms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...

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Wage setting in Hungary: evidence from a firm survey

Kézdi, Gábor; Kónya, István - In: MNB Bulletin 4 (2009) 3, pp. 20-26

We document results from a survey of wage setting in Hungarian enterprises. The survey was developed and coordinated by the Eurosystem Wage Dynamics Network, and it was administered in 17 European countries; this allows us to put the Hungarian findings in context. The main conclusion from the...

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