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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …, unions have incentives to claim a bigger share of the revenue of FDI. …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …, unions have incentives to claim a bigger share of the revenue of FDI. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761987

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018

unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …

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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and …

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Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants

Schnabel, Claus - 2020

well as the role of changing attitudes of employees towards unions are not fully clear, but the rise of the informal sector …

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Worker Representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.

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The Rules of the Game: Local Wage Bargaining and the Gender Pay Gap

Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2024

We study how local bargaining institutions affect the within-job gender wage gap among Swedish blue collar workers. Collective agreements with varying degrees of local flexibility tend to cover blue-collar workers across different occupations within the same firm. As a consequence, workers...

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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Beissinger, Thomas - 2001

The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For this purpose a two-country model with imperfect...

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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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