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Union Membership and Wage Bargaining When Membership is Not Compulsory

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

, suggesting that in the absence of coercion, unions may still retain some membership providing they can continue to provide non …

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Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s

Ebell, Monique; Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

stock market valuations throughout the 1920s. Landmark court decisions in favour of trade unions in the late 1920s, as well …

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Microdata

Bauer, Thomas; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The Paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-97, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

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Locational Competition versus Cooperation in Labour Markets: An Implicit Contract Reinterpretation

Burda, Michael C; Mertens, Antje - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The need for locational competition among labour markets arises when labour is immobile. At the same time market clearing under such conditions can lead to wage and income variability. In such cases demand for insurance against regional shocks arises, which can be provided by nationwide...

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Unions and Wage Insurance

Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Existing theories of unions emphasize their impact on wage levels relative to the opportunity cost of leisure. This … paper explores the possibility that monopoly unions provide income insurance against idiosyncratic wage variability. An …

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Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both the firm- and the industry-levels in France, we examine the impact of typical European wage-setting institutions on the form and the degree of wage rigidity. We highlight different stylized facts concerning wage stickiness. First, in...

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Seniority, Earnings and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper uses a new data source to investigate whether wages rise more with seniority in unionized or non-unionized workplaces. The data distinguish workers who are covered by incremental wage scales with automatic progression by seniority. For union workers with seniority scales, the union...

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Monetary Institutions, Monopolistic Competition, Unionized Labour Markets And Economic Performance

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Cukierman, Alex; Dalmazzo, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Existing literature on the strategic interaction between the central bank (CB) and unions assumes that firms face …. This is done in a three stage game, in the first stage of which unions contractually set nominal wages, in the second stage … employment and output even when inflation is fully anticipated by labour unions and even when unions are indifferent to inflation …

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Search, Concave Production, and Optimal Firm Size

Smith, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper presents a simple search and bargaining economy in which firms use concave production. Because a firm and worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this wage function, firms choose an excessively large and...

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Product Market Integration and Wages: Evidence from a Cross-Section of Manufacturing Establishments in the United Kingdom

Driffill, John; Meschi, Meloria; Ulph, Alistair Mitchell - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

markets, particularly those in which unions are active. We investigate this idea empirically using a cross-section of UK …

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