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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental …

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The microeconomic impacts of employee representatives : evidence from membership thresholds

Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

Employee representatives in firms are a potentially key but not yet studied source of the impact of unions and works …

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The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017

We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...

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The interplay between trade unions and the social security system in an aging economy

Friese, Max - 2019 - Revised version

This paper investigates how demographic change affects the financial sustainability of a defined benefit pay-as-you-go social security system in an environment with collective bargaining on the labor market. Temporary equilibrium analysis shows that the contribution rate decreases, if the...

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Unions and collective bargaining : the influence on wages, employment and firm survival

Brändle, Tobias - 2024

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … institutional role unions (can) play in different countries, on the economic conditions, and it varies strongly between industries … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in …

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Union bargaining and intra-industry productivity differentials : theory and evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Baumann, Florian; Brändle, Tobias - 2013 - Preliminary version

levels gives rise to the use of firm-level wage agreements reached by unions, while coverage by industry-wide contracts is …

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Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen : eine empirische Studie mit Firmendaten

Peters, Ralf-Henning - 2000

Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss des Tarifvertragssystems auf die Entscheidung von Unternehmen, im Ausland zu investieren. Ein Lohnverhandlungsmodell zeigt, dass produktive Unternehmen durch Flächentarifverträge im Heimatland begünstigt werden und seltener im Ausland investieren als bei...

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Branchenspezifische Interessen an der Allgemeinverbindlicherklärung in Deutschland

Günther, Wolfgang - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 27 (2020) 4, pp. 415-436

Arbeitgeberverbände und Gewerkschaften im Baugewerbe, im Einzelhandel und im Wach- und Sicherheitsgewerbe mit der AVE umgehen und welche … Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbänden. Es wird herausgearbeitet, dass die Akteure deshalb ein …' associations and trade unions deal with the extension and what interests they pursue in doing so. The analysis is based on the …

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Assessing the impact of wage bargaining and worker preferences on the gender pay gap in Ireland using the national employment survey 2003

McGuinness, Séamus; Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2009

This paper assesses the magnitude and nature of the gender pay gap in Ireland using the National Employment Survey 2003, an employeremployee matched dataset. The results suggest that while a wage bargaining system centred around social partnership was of benefit to females irrespective of their...

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Let's take bargaining models seriously : the decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...

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