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Optimal income taxation in unionized labor markets
Hummel, Albert Jan; Jacobs, Bas - 2018
This paper extends the Diamond (1980) model with labor unions to study optimal income taxation and to analyze whether … unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency costs of income redistribution, because unemployment benefits and income taxes …
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Imports as product and labour market discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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The structure of firm-specific labour unions
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten; Müller, Julia - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767003
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On the dynamics of interest group formation and endogenous policymaking
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
We present a dynamic model of the interaction between interest groupsand policymakers, featuringendogenous interest group formation. We show that complicated dynamicpatterns in economicpolicies may arise once interest group formation is taken intoaccount.
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Product market competition and trade union structure
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003
Trade unions tend to reduce the dispersion of wages among their members. Skilled workers may therefore have an … theoretical model to gain insight into the determinants of the number of trade unions at a firm. We show that imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332817
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Collective bargaining under non-binding contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
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Strategic wage setting and coordination frictions with multiple applications
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2004
We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...
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Carpooling with heterogeneous users in the bottleneck model
Yu, Xiaojuan; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2018
When drivers opt for carpooling, road capacity will be freed up, and this will reduce congestion. Therefore, carpooling is interesting for policy makers as a possible solution to congestion. We investigate the effects of carpooling in a dynamic equilibrium model of congestion, which captures...
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Bottleneck congestion : differentiating the coarse charge
Knockaert, Jasper; Rouwendal, Jan; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2010
The traditional bottleneck model for road congestion promotes the implementation of a triangular, fully time varying, charge as the optimal solution for the road congestion externality. However, cognitive and technological barriers put a practical limit to the degree of differentiation real...
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Step by step: revisiting step tolling in the bottleneck model
Lindsey, Robin; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, … - 2010
In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey's (1969) 'bottleneck model'. To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called 'step tolls', in which the toll...
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