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Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268253
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268861
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288211
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the “Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending”, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762307
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
are driven by both lower posted wages and reduced bargaining power, as well as reduced opportunities to climb the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210919
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426349
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262198