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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2009

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a …' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring activities …

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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade … offshoring, and it is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring … activities. Therefore, our analysis suggests that rather than provoking a downsizing of the welfare state, offshoring defines an …

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Efficiency and Equality in the Labour Market

Agell, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2003

This paper discusses the costs and benefits of welfare state intervention in the labour market, and argues that many forms of intervention can be justified for efficiency reasons. The paper reviews recent evidence on income inequality and income mobility, and it discusses labour market reforms...

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Labour tax policies and strategic offshoring under unionised oligopoly

Rocha-Akis, Silvia - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2006

In a model with a unionised immobile labour force we analyse how labour taxes and transfers towards unemployed workers are optimally chosen when a welfare maximising government faces oligopolistic and partly mobile firms. We consider two polar types of government: one whose objective consists of...

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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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Competition and the Retreat from Collective Bargaining

Brown, W.; Bryson, A.; Forth, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2008

For most of the twentieth century, collective bargaining provided the terms on which labour was commonly employed in Britain. However, the quarter century since 1980 has seen the collapse of collectivism as the main way of regulating employment. Our argument is that the tacit settlement between...

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Pay Inequality and Job Creation.

Moene, K.O.; Walelrstein, M. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996

We investigate the effects of wage compression through centralized collective bargaining when growth depends on the continual reallocation of labor from older, less productive plants to new, more productive plants.

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Wage Rigidity in Israel: Institutions vs. Market Forces.

Artstein, Y. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 1997

A basic feature of the industry wage model presented here is a distinction between unionized industries, with collective bargaining and thus a rigid setting framework, and non-unionized industries, where wage determination is more competitive.

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Leistungsentgelt im oeffentlichen Dienst: Intentionen, Wirkungen und Akzeptanz (Performance-Related Pay in the Public Sector: Intentions, Effects, and Acceptance )

Schmidt, Werner; Mueller, Andrea; Trittel, Nele - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 18 (2011) 1-2, pp. 78-98

Der Beitrag untersucht auf der Basis von Fallstudien, standardisierten Befragungen von Beschaeftigten sowie von Personalraeten die Einfuehrung, die Akzeptanz und die Funktionalitaet von leistungsorientierter Bezahlung (LOB) im oeffentlichen Dienst am Beispiel der Kommunen Nordrhein-Westfalens....

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Die Entwicklung der Arbeitsbeziehungen aus arbeitsrechtlicher Sicht Developments in German Industrial Relations from a Labor Law Perspective)

Weiss, Manfred - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 20 (2013) 4, pp. 393-417

Der Beitrag skizziert die Entwicklung der Arbeitsbeziehungen in Deutschland seit dem erstmaligen Erscheinen der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ aus arbeitsrechtlichem Blickwinkel. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es im Koalitionsrecht, im Tarifvertragsrecht, im Arbeitskampfrecht und im...

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