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An analysis of labour adjustment costs in unionized economies
Modesto, Leonor; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2000
In this paper we conduct a theoretical analysis of the implications of a union which can exploit the existence of firm labour adjustment costs. We consider a model involving a large number of identical firms facing a single, economy-wide union. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with...
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Unions as insurance : employer-worker risk sharing and workers' outcomes during COVID-19
Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris - 2023
We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
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Buying supermajorities in the lab
Fehrler, Sebastian; Schneider, Maik T. - 2019
Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the … literature on vote-buying is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose and Snyder (1996), which predicts that … also provide supporting evidence for most comparative statics predictions of the legislative lobbying model with respect to …
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Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2020
. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one policy over another to make the lobbying opposition less …
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How asymmetrically increasing joint strike costs need not lead to fewer strikes
Pantsios, Archontis L.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with mixed results, but also the joint costs model is problematic in explaining several stylized facts in...
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School choice design, risk aversion, and cardinal segregation
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Martínez-Mora, Francisco; … - 2020
We embed the problem of public school choice design in a model of local provision of education. We define cardinal (student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal preferences submit different rankings of schools in a centralised school choice procedure. With the...
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Political selection when uncertainty is high
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, … - 2022
Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of hand-collected data on 402,385 candidates who competed in open-list local council elections...
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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts
Danziger, Leif - 2010
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
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Business conditions and default risks across countries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
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Institutional uncertainty and European social union : impacts on job creation and destruction in the CEECs
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Göcke, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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