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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

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Centralized vs. decentralized wage formation: The role of firms' production technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Mueller, Steffen; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms’ Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

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Comparatively open: statutory information disclosure for consultation and bargaining in Germany, France and the UK

Gospel, Howard; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

the law on information disclosure for joint consultation and collective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France … is argued that there is coherence between the law and institutions in Germany; in France, despite extensive legal support …

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Types of Wage Adjustments in Recent Collective Agreements.

Kumar, P. - Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Research … - 1974

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Barriers to Freedom of Contract in the Public Sector

Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

Currently twenty-four states have “right–to-work” laws, which primarily restrict the rights of workers and employers in the private sector from entering into certain kinds of labor contracts. Federal labor law mandates that unions represent all workers at a workplace, whether they are...

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Contract staggering and unemployment during the great recession: evidence from Spain

Diéz-Catalán, Luis; Villanueva, Ernesto - Banco de España - 2015

We study the impact of (widespread) downward wage rigidity on the fl ows from employment to non-employment at the onset of the Great Recession. Downward wage (growth) rigidity is due to the fact that sector-level collective agreements in Spain are automatically extended to all fi rms, setting...

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Offshoring, Unemployment, and Wages: The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Ranjan, Priya - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2012

It is shown that when wages are determined through collective bargaining, there is a non-monotonic relationship between the cost of o§shoring and unemployment. Starting from a high cost of off- shoring, a decrease in the cost of o§shoring reduces unemployment first and then increases it. The...

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Berufsausbildung, Tarifpolitik und Sozialpartnerschaft: Eine historische Analyse der Entstehung des dualen Systems in Deutschland und Oesterreich (Vocational training, collective b...

Trampusch, Christine - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 2, pp. 160-180

/1897 und 1938. (This article compares the development of the collective skill formation systems in Germany and Austria from an … Germany the economic integration of trade unions, hence, collective bargaining, prompted collective skill formation, in … dual apprenticeship system. The study applies the method of contrasting contexts and Austria and Germany were selected as …

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Unions in Britain: Merely on the Margins or on the Cusp of a Comeback?

Gall, Gregor - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 323-340

This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse whether collectively they remain on the margins of in-fluence in the economy and society or whether, given and because of the crisis of neo-liberalism, they may be on the cusp of a...

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