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Over the past decade, organized labor has played a significant role in advocating for minimum wage increases. In this paper, we investigate the effects of minimum wage increases on union membership among individuals in minimum wage intensive industries. Consistent with a "freeriding" hypothesis,...
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We develop new facts relating news coverage, interest groups, and events in the legislative histories of minimum wage increases. First, we create and validate a database of news articles that includes coverage of minimum wages and organized labor. Second, we show that policy changes predict...
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this be, given that the minimum wage may act as a substitute for the bargaining power offered by labor unions? In this …
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are driven by both lower posted wages and reduced bargaining power, as well as reduced opportunities to climb the wage …
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pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany … outsources collective bargaining to the sectoral level, resulting in higher coverage and the avoidance of firm … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …
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We investigate experimentally how the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and bargaining outcomes of women …. Female participants negotiate in an unstructured bilateral bargaining game with asymmetric information about the allocation … of a surplus ('pie size'). We find that the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and that the effects depend on …
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bargaining power of the trade union and it has effort-enhancing and wage-moderating effects. We show that higher profit sharing … high benefit-replacement ratios and relative bargaining powers of trade unions. Conversely, profit sharing seems to be …
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In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
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bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent …
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We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … enters bargaining directly. Our results lend support to the tendency towards decentralisation of pay bargaining in the public …
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