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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/10003941761
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An Essay on Collective Bargaining and Unemployment in Germany
Ulman, Lloyd; Gerlach, Knut - 2014
Can Germany in the 1990s provide a contemporary example of the "uneasy triangle" posited by The Economist in the early 1950s? As the millennium approached, Germany's inflation rate was very low; its unemployment rate unacceptably high; and its system of collective bargaining arguably the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030248
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Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power
Rupert, Peter - 2009
A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155006
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Commuting, wages and bargaining power
Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009
A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905644
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Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the Us
Malcomson, James M. - 2015
The Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model with all wages negotiated each period is shown inconsistent with macroeconomic wage dynamics in the US. This applies even when heterogeneous match productivities, time to build vacancies and credible bargaining are incorporated. Wage rigidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028198
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Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894049
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Promotion, Turnover, Earnings and Firm-Sponsored Training
Owan, Hideo - 2002
Different countries display different patterns in labor mobility, promotion, earning distribution, and provision of firm-sponsored training. Although economists have developed many building-block models that allow them to analyze subsets of those labor market characteristics, few models predict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110221
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135184
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135292