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The Optimal Babel - An Economic Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Language Rights

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021

We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first used to find efficient allocations of rights in the...

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Are labor unions important for business cycle fluctuations : lessons from Bulgaria (1999-2016)

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2019

(1999-2016), and compare and contrast it to a model with indivisible labor and no unions as in Rogerson and Wright (1988 …). We find that the sequential bargaining between unions and firms produces an important internal propagation mechanism …

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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity

Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...

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Union membership and employment dynamics : a note

Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - 2010

overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions. -- unions ; endogenous membership …

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Unionization and Strategic Trade Policy

Swagel, Phillip - 2006

This paper examines the effect of unionization on welfare and trade policy in a model of duopolists competing in a third market. It shows that the traditional result that the presence of a union necessitates a stronger strategic trade policy to reach the optimal level of welfare depends on the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Unionised Duopoly

Fanti, Luciano - 2019

It is commonly believed that the choice of adopting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) behaviours is beyond the scope of profit enhancement. In a unionised oligopoly with centralised wage setting and decreasing returns to scale technology, the present paper shows that the owners' choice of...

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Unemployment Insurance in Unionized Labor Markets : Neither Ghent Nor Centralized

Saha, David - 2015

This paper analyzes unemployment insurance (UI) schemes in the presence of mobile workers and trade unions at industry … types of existing UI systems. When UI is organized at trade union level (decentralized Ghent UI), trade unions strategically … lower the benefit levels of their UI schemes to deter welfare recipients from other unions from entering their UI scheme …

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

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Enterprise Formation and Labor Market Institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2021

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When unionisation is profitable for firms in network industries

Fanti, Luciano; Buccella, Domenico - 2017

firms may choose whether to bargain over wages and employment with unions or to face a competitive labour market (i ….e. without unions). If unions are sufficiently risk-averse, it is shown that the presence of strong network effects makes …

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