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Striking Features of the Labor Market
Greene, William H.; Martins, Ana P. - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2002
´s willingness to participate in a strike. We develop and compare two signaling models of strikes: in one, firms are able to monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721204
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Striking Features of the Labor Market
Greene, William H.; Martins, Ana P. - 2002
´s willingness to participate in a strike. We develop and compare two signaling models of strikes: in one, firms are able to monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496031
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Striking Features of the Labor Market: Theory
Greene, William H.; Martins, Ana P. - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 56 (2013) 2, pp. 1-24
´s willingness to participate in a strike. We develop and compare two signaling models of strikes: in one, firms are able to monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078543
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Striking Features of the Labor Market: Empirical Evidence
Greene, William H.; Martins, Ana P. - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 56 (2013) 2, pp. 25-53
The present paper aims at explaining strike incidence, measured by the proportion of strikers observed in each sector, and strike severeness, proxied by a measure of mean strike hours lost per worker in each industry. We find that Industry concentration dissuades striking – more concentrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078559
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A note on the impact of procedures in strike models : the case of bargaining structure
Goerke, Laszlo - 1997
For a two-period screening model of strikes it is shown that joint bargaining instead of enterprise negotiations lowers … wages and implies more strikes. These results hold irrespective of the party possessing private information. The sensitivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755226
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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230711
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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278687
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Why do firms pay an overtime premium?
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000
We develop a rationale for the payment by firms of a wage premium on marginal, or overtime, weekly hours. We examine wage-hours contracts within the framework of a two-period specific human capital model with asymmetric information. The wage premium serves to achieve contract efficiency. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335237
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Dynamic contractual enforcement : a model of strikes
Robinson, James A. - In: International economic review 40 (1999) 1, pp. 209-229
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001353466
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Rebellion against reason? : a study of expressive choice and strikes
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Jennings, Colin C.; … - 2012
In this paper we challenge the conventional view that strikes are caused by asymmetric information regarding firm … profitability such that union members are uninformed. Instead, we build an expressive model of strikes where the perception of … offers and the incidence of strikes. Furthermore, while asymmetric information is still important in causing strikes, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552914