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The Impact of Temporary Agency Work on Trade Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis

Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015

Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...

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The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting: A theoretical analysis

Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015

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An Analysis of Labour Adjustment Costs in Unionized Economies

Modesto, Leonor; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2000

In this paper we conduct a theoretical analysis of the implications of a union which can exploit the existence of firm labour adjustment costs. We consider a model involving a large number of identical firms facing a single, economy-wide union. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with...

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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets

Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005

This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is mainly caused by shortages in labour demand. Labour demand is expressed by its structural...

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The Effect of Worker Representation on Employment Behavior in Germany : Another Case of -2.5%

Teixeira, Paulino; Addison, John T. - 2004

Despite recent changes in the relationship between unionism and various indicators of firm performance, there is one seeming constant in the Anglophone countries: unions at the workplace are associated with reduced employment growth of around -2.5% a year. Using German data, we examine the...

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Age and gender differences in job opportunities

Humpert, Stephan - 2012

There is only a few literature on age specific occupational segregation. In this descriptive paper, I focus on job opportunities for newly hired older male and female workers. It is an enriched replication study of Hutchens (ILRR,1988), who showed that firms employ older workers, but hire them...

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Dual labour markets: A survey

Wapler, Rüdiger - 1999

Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market, this paper presents a survey of how these theories can be integrated into a dual labour market setting. This approach dichotomises the labour market into two sectors, a primary...

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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers

Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell; Willén, Alexander L.P. - 2021

This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the effects of unionization on the dynamics of worker earnings across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting tax reforms to union due deductions as exogenous shocks to...

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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers

Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2022

This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...

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Temporary Employment, Demand Volatility and Unions: Firm-Level Evidence

Devicienti, Francesco; Naticchioni, Paolo; Ricci, Andrea - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of workplace unionization and product market volatility on firms' propensity to use … temporary employment. Using Italian firm level data, we show that unionization and volatility have a positive impact on the … share of temporary contracts. However, as volatility increases the union effect becomes negative, suggesting that in a …

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