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Unionisation Structures, Productivity, and Firm Performance
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159889
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Unionisation structures, productivity, and firm performance
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835154
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Unionisation structures, productivity and firm performance : new insights from a heterogeneous firm model
Braun, Sebastian - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 18 (2011) 1, pp. 120-129
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248343
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The institutional adjustment margin to import competition : evidence from Italian minimum wages
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo; Vona, Francesco - 2019
A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the two-tier collective bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999702
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The institutional adjustment margin to import competition : evidence from italian minimum wages
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo; Vona, Francesco - 2019
A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the two-tier collective bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127295
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Trade and Race-to-The-Bottom Wage Competition
Persyn, Damiaan - 2006
This paper looks at how increasing economic integration affects wage bargaining between unions and firms if firms are internationally mobile. Using a simple NEG model we find that if firms are perfectly mobile, countries are sufficiently symmetric and wages are bargained over at the firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054350
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Has International Trade Affected Workers' Bargaining Power?
Brock, Ellen; Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2006
In this paper, we investigate whether globalization has affected workers' bargaining power in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1987-1995 using a sample of more than 20,000 firms. We find little evidence of international trade and inward foreign direct investment having an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056809
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Imports as product and labour market discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377465
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966443
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931419