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Job satisfaction and trade union membership in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022

union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed … of union membership, we generate information on the union density individuals faced in their industry and region. This … time-variant IV suggests no causal impact of individual union membership on job satisfaction. Finally, using different …

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … average partial effect of union membership. -- dismissal ; free-riding ; trade union membership ; survey data …

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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022

Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....

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Union membership and employment dynamics : a note

Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - 2010

We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions. -- unions ; endogenous membership …

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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013

Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...

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Welfare-enhancing trade unions in an oligopoly with excessive entry

De Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - 2019

Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business...

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Union bargaining power and product innovation : relevance of the preference function

Basak, Debasmita; Hoefele, Andreas; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2014

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised wage bargaining. In this context, we show the implications of preference function, which affects the market size. A higher union bargaining power increases innovation if...

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Trade and unions : can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - 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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Workfare and trade unions : labor market repercussions of welfare reform

Schöb, Ronnie - 2003

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the number of recipients of public financial assistance, a...

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Optimal capital taxation in economies with unionised and competitive labour markets

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2002

According to the existing literature, capital taxes should not be imposed in the presence of optimal profit taxation in either unionised or competitive labour markets. We show that this conclusion does not hold for an economy with both competitive and unionised sectors, where the competitive...

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