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pay gap. Among them are skill supply and demand, unions, and minimum wages, which influence the economywide wage returns …
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Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with “bad jobs”, particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for...
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This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …
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What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of developing and advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial share of cross-country variation in...
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Derogations have become a core element of the collective bargaining system in Germany, at least in the manufacturing …
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When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power …
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When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power …
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The interplay between labor institutions and the firm-level adoption of new technologies such as robotics and other advanced digital tools remains poorly understood. Using a cross-sectional sample of more than 20000 European establishments, this paper documents a positive association between...
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in relatively centralized wage-setting environments, where one would expected a more limited influence of ER on wages …
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probably no, at least with respect to labour actors (unions), which face several problems. There are thousands of unions in … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. …
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