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A Note on the Effect of Outsourcing on Union Wages

Braun, Sebastian; Scheffel, Juliane - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

We analyze the effect of outsourcing on union wages in a simple two-stage game between a firm and a union. In contrast to public perception the ease with which the firm can outsource parts of their production does not necessarily reduce the wage set by the union. Even in the simple model...

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Does International Outsourcing Depress Union Wages?

Braun, Sebastian; Scheffel, Juliane - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of … low skilled employees not covered by collective bargaining agreements. While wages of medium skilled workers are largely …

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Union Wage Compression in a Right-to-Manage Model

Vogel, Thorsten - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by...

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Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s

Ebell, Monique; Ritschl, Albrecht - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

framework. The model framework combines monopolistic product market competition with search frictions and bargaining in the … labor market, allowing for both individual and collective (unionized) wage bargaining. We attribute the extraordinary … macroeconomic and financial volatility of this period to two factors: Shifts in the wage bargaining regime and in the degree of …

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Betriebsratspraxis bei Innovation.Beispiele und Erfahrungen aus der Metallindustrie in der Region Hannover

Stracke, Stefan; Witte, Heinz H - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2006

Im Zuge der Tarifrunde für die Metall- und Elektroindustrie im Frühjahr 2006 hat die wirtschaftspolitische Debatte um Innovationen im Betrieb erneut an Brisanz gewonnen. Die IG Metall forderte den Abschluss eines Tarifvertrags zu Qualifizierung und Innovation, um die Unternehmen stärker zur...

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Family Bargaining and Taxes:A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Pollak, Robert A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins byreviewing unitary and bargaining … models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses thedeterminants of "bargaining power" in a world without taxes... …

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A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship ofUnemployment Benefits

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earningsrelationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages …

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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britainon Couples: Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families´ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples inBritain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for therole played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using paneldata from the British...

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On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage:New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory

Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if itis implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issuein a framework where search frictions on the labor market generate unemployment. Workersdiffer in productivity...

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities inCollective Bargaining Agreements

Christofides, Louis N.; Nearchou, Paris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity andsignificant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility ofreal as well as nominal wage...

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