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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

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Centralised Labour Market Negotiations

Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten - CESifo - 2013

This paper contributes to the analysis of central vs. decentral (firm-level) labour market negotiations. We argue that during negotiations on a central scale employers and employees plausibly take output market effects into account, while they behave competitively during firm-level negotiations....

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Wage and Employment Effects of Non-Binding Minimum Wages

Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas - CESifo - 2010

bargaining models between unions and firms. While the Nash bargaining solution is unaffected by minimum wages below initially …Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment …. Empirical and experimental research, however, has shown that the introduction of a minimum wage can raise even those wages that …

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Labor Unions, Globalization, and Mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - CESifo - 2009

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - CESifo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - CESifo - 2013

incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive markets. We show that trade unions which are unable to internalise the … externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only … establishes that trade unions can have a welfare-enhancing role in a world with relative consumption effects. …

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - CESifo - 2008

are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …

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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008

In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Beyond Ramsey: Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2012

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non- cooperative model of a couple’s time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses’...

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