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Structural Reforms and Growth : Product and Labor Market Deregulations
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W. - 2006
The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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Wage Flexibility and Labour Market Institutions : A Meta-Analysis
Clar, Miquel - 2007
Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777602
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Labor Market Reform and Rent Sharing : A Quasi-Experimental Experience
Poggi, Ambra; Nicolini, Rosella - 2014
In this paper, we analyze the wage effects of the adoption of a labor reform aiming at making labor institutions more flexible. We are working with a quasi-experimental setting referring to a sample of Italian companies before and after the introduction of the Treu Reform (1997). Our...
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Is the Union Employment Suppression Effect Diminishing? Further Evidence from Canada
Walsworth, Scott - 2013
more than twenty-five years ago. Noting this, Walsworth (2010a) utilized data from the Statistics Canada Workplace and … suppression effect in Canada. He found that, compared to Long's (1993) findings, the union employment suppression effect has … apparently diminished in Canada. However, we note that Walsworth's (2010a) analysis is not comparable to that conducted by Long …
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Do Unions Affect Pay Methods of Canadian Firms? A Longitudinal Study
Long, Richard J.; Shields, John - 2010
Drawing on two waves of survey data collected from 250 Canadian firms in 2000 and 2004, this study examines union influence on the mix of compensation methods used by employers. As expected, firms with more unionization devoted a larger proportion of total compensation to indirect pay (also...
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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics
Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024
This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...
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Labour Markets, Firms and Institutions : Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Gahan, Peter G. - 2012
The study of the employment relation has always held a somewhat ambiguous position within the field of economics. The nature of labour market adjustment processes and unique aspects of the employment relation have posed problems for standard economic theories and have limited the use of formal...
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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility : Evidence from Brazil
Estevão, Marcello M. - 2012
Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the institutional changes introduced by the 1988...
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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312945
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135314