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In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at odds with conventional theoretical wisdom and cannot happen in a...
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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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strategies in labor markets, giving rise to different productive structures in equilibrium. Scopes and incentives for unions …' collusion are analyzed. The consequences on national welfare levels of both unions and firms' strategic behavior are also …
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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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extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms' incentives to invest in capital …, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk (irreversible), as in research-intensive sectors. Whether unions affect … firms' investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …
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research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This …
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unions. The problem is relevant to scholars and the labor movement, requiring a deeper understanding of union membership … primarily perceived cause of declining union membership, (b) unions should be more effective in collective bargaining, and (c …
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Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a detailed decomposition approach based on Fairlie (2005). Using linked...
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extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms’ incentives to invest in capital …, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk (irreversible), as in research-intensive sectors. Whether unions affect … firms’ investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405030
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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