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Unions, Worker Participation and Worker Well-Being

Artz, Benjamin; Heywood, John S. - 2020

This chapter focuses on the lessons learned from four decades of studying the relationship between unions and job …

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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries: Main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo, Miguel Á. - 2017

countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus on the main pillars of labour market institutions, as employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700836

Unions, worker participation and worker well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Heywood, John S. - 2020

This chapter focuses on the lessons learned from four decades of studying the relationship between unions and job …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308044

Call me rep! : how unions overcame the free-rider problem

Murphy, Richard - 2017

This paper proposes an explanation of why union membership has been increasing in some occupations, despite the opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the perceived risk of allegations. Using media reports on...

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Labor-market concentration and labor compensation

Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2019

from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis extends beyond wages to rates of employment-based health insurance …

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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017

countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus on the main pillars of labour market institutions, as employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115200

What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?

Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

estimate the effects of unions on risk adjusted returns and find that the union effect on performance varies in ways that are … consistent with our priors. In particular, unions have the largest negative effect among multi-employer defined contribution … plans and the negative effect of unions can be eliminated by a switch to participant direction. Also, we find that unions …

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Should serverance pay be consistent for all workers? : single, open-ended contracts with sesrverance pay smoothly rising with seniority can decrease both unemployment and job losse...

García Peréz, José Ignacio - 2015

The trend towards labor market flexibility in Europe has typically involved introducing legislation that makes it easier for firms to issue temporary contracts with low firing costs, while not changing the level of protection that is in place for permanent jobs. This has created a strong...

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Social and Occupational Security and Labour Market Flexibility in Sweden : The Case of Unemployment Compensation

Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren - 2007

The Swedish labour market and social policy is aimed at facilitating flexibility in the labour market. The active labour market policy and the design of the social security pension system are two frequently mentioned examples of that policy. This does not necessarily mean that all policy...

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Severance Pay and Corporate Finance : Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms

Cardinale, Mirko; Orszag, J. Michael - 2021

This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its assessments of risk. Using a hand collected dataset of accounting data from Italy and Austria we find...

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