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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 - 2021

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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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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Unionisation and Foreign Direct Investment : Challenging Conventional Wisdom?

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2000

This paper investigates the effects of different degrees of wage setting centralisation on the incentive of a MNE to locate in a host country, and on the host country's welfare. Decentralised and centralised wage bargaining are considered. The nature of product market competition between the MNE...

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Evasive reform : informalisation in a liberalised economy with wage-setting unions

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Marjit, Sugata - 2004

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

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Environmental Quality, the Macroeconomy, and Intergenerational Distribution

Heijdra, Ben J.; Kooiman, Jan Peter; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2014

The paper studies the dynamic allocation effects and intergenerational welfare consequences of environmental taxes. To this end, environmental externalities are introduced in a Blanchard-Yaari overlapping generations model of a small open economy. A rise in environmental taxes-taking into...

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Welfare Analysis of Cities : Urban Sprawl, Transportation Pricing, and the Optimal Rawlsian Town

Basso, Leonardo J.; Pezoa, Raul; Silva, Hugo E. - 2021

This paper studies the Rawlsian first-best allocation in a monocentric city model using a unifying framework of land ownership. We show that a Rawlsian planner would not choose the market outcome, except for the extreme case of public land ownership in which all the differential rent is...

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Product and labor market deregulation in unionized oligopoly with asymmetric countries

Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - 2011

in the other country labor unions are active in a subset of industries. The differences in labor market institutions are …

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Trade and competition policies in imperfectly competitive markets

Buccella, Domenico - 2008

foreign country reduce it. Competition policy in the presence of national labor unions does not reduce labor market …

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