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Welfare Analysis of Cities : Urban Sprawl, Transportation Pricing, and the Optimal Rawlsian Town

Basso, Leonardo J.; Pezoa, Raul; Silva, Hugo E. - 2021

This paper studies the Rawlsian first-best allocation in a monocentric city model using a unifying framework of land ownership. We show that a Rawlsian planner would not choose the market outcome, except for the extreme case of public land ownership in which all the differential rent is...

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Trade unions and Corporate Social Responsibility

Goerke, Laszlo - 2020

Trade unions distort a profit-maximising firm's input choice. The nature of the resulting inefficiency depends on … whether there are wage negotiations or there is efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby …-enhancing role of trade unions more likely in the presence of wage negotiations. The reverse is true in case of efficient bargaining. …

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Trade unions and corporate social responsibility

Goerke, Laszlo - 2020

Trade unions distort a profit-maximising firm's input choice. The nature of the resulting inefficiency depends on … whether there is wage or efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms …. Importantly from a normative vantage point, such CSR objectives make a welfare-enhancing role of trade unions more likely in the …

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Collective bargaining about corporate social responsibility

Goerke, Laszlo; Paulus, Nora - 2024

If a profit-maximising firm credibly commits to an employment-enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objective in negotiations with a trade union, the union can reduce its wage demands. Lower wages, ceteris paribus, raise profits, while the increase in employment enhances the payoff of...

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Choice of Union-Firm Bargaining Agenda and Social Welfare

Pal, Rupayan - 2014

This paper shows that with a strong labour union, bargaining over piece rate generates higher social welfare than bargaining over fixed wage. Moreover, this social welfare exceeds the social welfare under efficient bargaining level, if the union is very strong

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The impact of trade on employment, welfare, and income distribution in unionized general oligopolistic equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2010

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...

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The impact of trade on employment, welfare, and income distribution in unionized general oligopolistic equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2009

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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut - 2010

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Union structure and product quality differentiation

Meccheri, Nicola; Vergari, Cecilia - 2024

endogenous choices by firms of the quality level of their products: especially when unionization is decentralized and unions have …

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Macroeconomic effects of social security privatization in a small unionized economy

Adam, Antonis - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping-generations framework we show that in an environment characterized by unemployment, a reform towards a private pension system in the steady state may result in lower levels of...

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