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Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2007

We analyse how different labour market institutions — employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’ — affect technology … adoption in unionised firms. The analysis is cast in a setting of corporate globalisation, where domestic unionised labour face … increased ‘flexicurity’) contribute to making trade unions more willing to accept labour-saving technological change …

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Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - 2008

We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versus flexicurity - affect technology …' incentives to invest in such technology. We find that increased flexicurity interpreted as less employment protection and a …

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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity: On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2008

’ incentives to invest in such technology. We find that increased flexicurity – interpreted as less employment protection and a …

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Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We analyse how different labour market institutions--employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’--affect technology …’ incentives to invest in such technology. Increased flexicurity--interpreted as less employment protection and a higher …

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Internationalization of Firms’ Activities and Company Union Wage Strategies

Buccella, Domenico - 2014

Using a two-country duopoly model with homogeneous goods, firms' decisions with respect to international activities (trade vs. foreign direct investment - FDI) in the presence of company-wide unions are analyzed. If firms export, they pay trade costs per unit of the goods exported. If firms...

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Globalisation and union opposition to technological change

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2005

We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adoption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages. Trade liberalisation typically increases trade union technology opposition. These conclusions are reached...

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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised,incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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North–South technology transfer in unionised multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 385-395

We study how incentives for North–South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. Higher union...

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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms’ desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799749

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