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Unemployment and Gang Crime : Could Prosperity Backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …
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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers’ bargaining...
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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?
Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - CESifo - 2011
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs...
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - CESifo - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671733
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Trade and Unions : Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040479
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137867
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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144026
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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?
Ceglowski, Janet Eve - 2011
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120237
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Minimum Wage, Trade and Unemployment in General Equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
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