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Union wage effect : evidence from Ghana
Owusu-Afriyie, John; Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16
strength of unions. It is against this background that our study seeks to examine the effect of unions' bargaining (proxied by … (GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study …
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Crisis behind the figures? : Belgian trade unions between strength, paralysis and revitalisation
Faniel, Jean - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 1, pp. 14-31
Unlike most of the trade unions in European countries, Belgian unions managed to preserve a high and stable union … and the unions has been worsening for three decades. This article looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Belgian unions … and presents four initiatives of union revitalisation recently developed. The argument is that Belgian unions do not fully …
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A union representative's perspective of declining union membership
Rivers, Melvin J.; Truitt, Tim - In: International journal of management, economics and … 3 (2014) 3, pp. 125-143
unions. The problem is relevant to scholars and the labor movement, requiring a deeper understanding of union membership … primarily perceived cause of declining union membership, (b) unions should be more effective in collective bargaining, and (c …
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Flexibilität unter Kontrolle? : Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen der Tarifabweichungen in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie
Haipeter, Thomas - In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, … 27 (2020) 4, pp. 481-500
Tarifabweichungen gehören mittlerweile in den deutschen Industriebranchen zum Kernbestand des Tarifsystems. Waren ihre Bewertungen früher stark umstritten, so scheint heute der Pulverdampf weitgehend verflogen. Tarifabweichungen sind in den Industriebranchen - und dort vor allem auch in der...
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Unions and investment in intangible capital : when workers and firms cannot commit to long-term contracts and capital investments are sunk, union power can reduce investment
Sulis, Giovanni - 2015
extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms' incentives to invest in capital …, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk (irreversible), as in research-intensive sectors. Whether unions affect … firms' investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …
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The evolution of the earnings distribution in a volatile economy : evidence from Argentina
Blanco, Andres; Diaz de Astarloa, Bernardo; Drenik, Andres - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1361-1403
This paper studies earnings inequality and dynamics in Argentina between 1996 and 2015. Following the 2001–2002 crisis, the Argentine economy transitioned from a low‐ to a high‐inflation regime, while collective bargaining and the minimum wage gained influence. This transition was...
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Wage compression and the gender pay gap : wage-setting institutions narrow the gender pay gap but may reduce employment for some women
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015
pay gap. Among them are skill supply and demand, unions, and minimum wages, which influence the economywide wage returns …
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Making sense of Arab labor markets: the enduring legacy of dualism
Asʿad, Rāǧī - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low and stagnant female labor force participation. I argue in...
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Real wage responsiveness to unemployment in Spain : asymmetries along the business cycle
Font, Paulino; Izquierdo, Mario; Puente, Sergio - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 13, pp. 1-13
We estimate real wage cyclicality in the period compressed between 1987 and 2013 using a large administrative dataset of workers in Spain. Real wages are weakly procyclical in Spain and focusing on differences in different phases of the business cycle, we find that differences across expansions...
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Wage flexibility and the great recession : the response of the Irish labour market
Doris, Aedín; O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 18, pp. 1-24
In this paper we examine nominal earnings flexibility in Ireland during the Great Recession. The Irish case is particularly interesting because it has been one of the countries most affected by the crisis. Using tax return data that are free of reporting error and cover the entire population of...
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