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The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
Hirsch, Boris - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072156
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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany
Jung, Sven - 2009
collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158067
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957488
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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Schnabel, Claus - 2015
concerning labour supply behaviour, labour productivity, wages, and bargaining coverage, and they still exhibit substantially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025303