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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
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Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer unionpower from the observed …
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Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels inFrance, we document stylized facts on wage stickiness and the impact of wage-settinginstitutions on wage rigidity. First, the average duration of wages is a little less than one yearand around 10 percent of...
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We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutralemployees negotiate over … wage-employment contract andthe equilibrium contract under binding risk-neutral efficient bargaining. We also …
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.The authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey inBelgium to examine how these bargaining … firms and for differences in characteristics between bargaining regimes.Moreover, in centralized industries, rent-sharing is …, both firm andindustry bargaining generate rent-sharing to the same extent. …
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search-and-matching frictions, collective bargaining and monopolistic competition in the productmarket. Workers are …
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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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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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