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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana - 2000

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and...

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Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification

Dickens, William T. - 1985

This paper investigates the correlates of union success in NLRB certification and decertification elections. The … analysis includes a wide variety of bargaining unit, union, industry, and geographic attributes, many of which have not been … the size of the unit, employer consent to the definition of the bargaining unit, the length of campaigns, union organizing …

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Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility : International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms

Lazear, Edward P. - 2007

The returns to talent or performance have grown over time in developed countries. Is talent concentrated in a few firms or are firms virtual microcosms of the economy, each having close to identical distributions of talent?

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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Card, David - 2005

In many European countries sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set from Spain to study the effects of firm-level contracting...

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Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

Brügemann, Björn - 2015

The paper revisits the problem of wage bargaining between a firm and multiple workers. We show that the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of the extensive-form game proposed by Stole and Zwiebel (1996a) does not imply a profile of wages and profits that coincides with the Shapley values as claimed in...

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Unemployment Crises

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2013

A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can potentially explain the large unemployment dynamics in the Great Depression. The limited response of wages to labor market conditions from credible bargaining and the congestion...

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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France, and Belgium

Abraham, Katharine G. - 1993

Laws in most Western European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana - 2005

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...

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Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World

Edmans, Alex - 2014

We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the "Best Companies to Work For" in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market flexibility,...

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