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The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D
Palokangas, Tapio - 2014
In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human … less competition from outside. Then, the fall of income due to wage increases is reduced and labor market regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054585
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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labour, Firm Size and Firm Performance
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and … level, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661940
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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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Labour Market Deregulation and the Decline of Labour Power in North America and Western Europe
Peters, John - 2010
The goal of this article is to provide a critical evaluation of what has happened to organized labour and labour markets since 1980. It examines the impacts of labour market deregulation on wage share and pay standardization. It also explores how recent economic changes have weakened organized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195612
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Regulatory Growth Theory
Xie, Danxia - 2018
Innovations (i.e. Regulator-approved innovations) to the number of total patents and (3) exponentially increasing regulation over … time. Greater expenditures on regulation and corporate R&D are required to assess the net benefit of innovation because of … propose counteracts the crucial "Knowledge Spillover" effect in the Endogenous Growth models. The rise of regulation versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912203
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The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014
In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human … less competition from outside. Then, the fall of income due to wage increases is reduced and labor market regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352245
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Economic growth with political lobbying and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio - 2009
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the economy or the more they can coordinate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269189
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Integration, labor market regulation, lobbying, and technological change
Palokangas, Tapio - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269270
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Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying,and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled andunskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts newmembers to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilledlabor and supports firms by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360646
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Economic integration, market power and technological change
Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2005
We examine a common market which expands by integrating new regions. Capitalists are strategically interdependent through the goods market and they improve their productivity through R&D. Production and R&D employ unionized workers. The purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002804842