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Trade and unions : can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...

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Trade and Unions : Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?

Capuano, Stella - 2014

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The impact of skill endowments and collective bargaining on knowledgeintensive greenfield FDI

Amoroso, Sara; Dosso, Mafini; Moncada Paternò … - 2015

This paper assesses the contribution of skilled employment and labour market conditions to the ability of attracting knowledge intensive and manufacturing greenfield FDI. We carry out our analysis by controlling for a wide range of labour market features, such as the collective bargaining...

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Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Froede; Sørgard, Lars - 2002

In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at odds with conventional theoretical wisdom and cannot happen in a...

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Unionized Oligopoly, Trade Liberalization and Location Choice

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Sorgard, Lars - 2021

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Unions, collective bargaining and firm performance

Laroche, Patrice - 2020

suggest that unionism is often associated with higher productivity but this relationship might vary across industries …, institutional contexts and over time. Estimates of the causal mechanisms through which unions affect productivity allow a better … understanding of the effects of unions. The literature on the effect of unions on productivity recognizes that part of this effect …

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Unionization structures and firms incentives for productivity enhancing investments

Haucap, Justus; Wey, Christian - 2002

' incentives to increase labor productivity. We distinguish three modes of unionization with increasing degree of centralization … firms' productivity differences remain small. Otherwise, workers prefer an intermediate degree of centralization, which …

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Unionization Structures and Firms' Incentives for Productivity Enhancing Investments

Haucap, Justus; Wey, Christian - Abteilung "Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und industrieller … - 2002

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Unionisation Structures and Firms' Incentives for Productivity Enhancing Investments

Haucap, Justus; Wey, Christian - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

' incentives to increase labour productivity. We distinguish three modes of unionisation with increasing degree of centralisation … firms' productivity differences remain small. Otherwise, workers prefer an intermediate degree of centralisation, which …

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Union bargaining in an oligopoly market with Cournot-Bertrand competition : welfare and policy implications

Schroeder, Elizabeth; Tremblay, Victor J. - In: Economies : open access journal 2 (2014) 2, pp. 95-108

We investigate the welfare effect of union activity in a relatively new oligopoly model, the Cournot-Bertrand model, where one firm competes in output (a la Cournot) and the other firm competes in price (a la Bertrand). The Nash equilibrium prices, outputs, and profits are quite diverse in this...

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