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coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with wages, productivity, profitability, investment, debt, employment growth …, and business failures are all relevant in assessing the future of unions and public policy with respect to unions. A … fundamentally to competitive forces and economic dynamism. Implications of these findings for labor law policy and the future of …
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This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the … and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions push immigrants to enter lower-paying and lower-quality firms with …
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When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages—that is, when they have monopsony power—some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....
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When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages—that is, when they have monopsony power—some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353363
When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power - some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198922
When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages - that is, when they have monopsony power - some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201697
, resulting in an increase in competition in product markets, there should be effects on wage and employment outcomes in labour … markets, particularly those in which unions are active. We investigate this idea empirically using a cross-section of UK …
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product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … attract and retain qualified employees throughout the industry. Because unions retain bargaining power at the major carriers …
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This paper demonstrates that in a free entry search and bargaining economy with concave production firms over-employ. Bargaining allows the worker's wage to depend upon marginal productivity. As such, with strictly concave production, the wage declines as firms employ more labour. Firms react to...
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This paper presents a simple search and bargaining economy in which firms use concave production. Because a firm and worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this wage function, firms choose an excessively large and...
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