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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

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Non‐Rigid Wages and Merger Profitability Reversal Under Convex Costs and Centralized Unionization

Fanti, Luciano; Meccheri, Nicola - 2016

Can a merger from duopoly to monopoly be detrimental for profits? This paper deals with this issue by focusing on the interaction between decreasing returns to labour (which imply firms’ convex costs) and centralized unionization. First, it is highlighted that a wage ‘non‐rigidity’...

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A Unionized Oligoply with Bounded Rational Agents

Goeddeke, Anna - 2010

In this model I show why unions sometimes do not reduce wages, even if it will be profitable for themselves and the economy. The reasons are simple. When I allow unions and firms to be bounded rational agents with limited information, it is individually rational for unions to behave like this....

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Boosting productivity in Russia : skills, education and innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2015

human capital and productivity improvements. While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be …

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Micro-mechanisms behind declining labour shares : market power, production processes, and global competition

Mertens, Matthias - 2019

This article investigates how changing production processes and increasing market power at the firm level relate to a fall in Germany’s manufacturing sector labour share. Coinciding with the fall of the labour share, I document a rise in firms’ product and labour market power. Notably,...

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Unionisation Structures and Heterogeneous Firms

Braun, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942170

Wage bargaining, job loss fears and offshoring

Riedl, Maximilian - 2013

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Price and wage setting in an integrating Europe : firm level evidence

Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - 2006

Europe has witnessed the last decade an accelerated process of economic integration. Trade barriers were removed, the euro was introduced and ten new member states entered the European Union. Economic integration is likely to have an impact on both labor and product markets. Unlike most other...

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