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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012
In federal countries, competence for policy matters is often shared between various levels of government. As only overall outcomes are observed, this might blur accountability by decreasing voters' ability to infer information about the performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse...
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She works hard for the money: Tackling low pay in sectors dominated by women. Evidence from health and social care
Müller, Torsten - 2019
This working paper provides data confirming that workers in lower-skilled health and social care assistant positions earn considerably less than the national average wage in their country. The publication argues that the wage penalty for working in female-dominated sectors and occupations such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565907
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Bargaining power and equilibrium consumption
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2005
We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261173
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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that "who gets what" is significantly dependent upon "who earns how much." However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...
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Increasing income inequality: productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269677
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Thrifty Wives and Lavish Husbands? – Bargaining Power and Financial Dicisions in Germany
Keese, Matthias - 2011
-fämiliärer Verhandlungsmacht abhängen. Ein typischer Indikator von Verhandlungsmacht ist beispielsweise das relative Einkommen der Partner. Da … Frauen eine längere Ruhestandsphase erwarten können, könnte ein Anstieg weiblicher Verhandlungsmacht einerseits zu höherer … nutze ich zwei deutsche Datensätze und verwende verschiedene Maße für Verhandlungsmacht. Dabei kann ich zeigen, dass …
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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325839
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Market structure, bargaining, and technology choice
Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - 2000
die Verhandlungsmacht der Vertragsparteien auswirken. Im Gegensatz zu vorhergehenden Ansätzen nehmen wir an, daß die … ermöglicht. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit untersuchen wir, wie die Berücksichtigung von Verhandlungsmacht die Technologiewahl eines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278109
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Collective bargaining under non-binding contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278650
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Bargaining over labor: Do patients have any power?
Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...
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