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Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression
The Machado-Mata decomposition building on quantile regression has been extensively analyzed in the literature focusing on gender wage inequality. In...
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Bilanz des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns: deutliche Lohnerhöhungen, aber auch viele Umgehungen
Three years after the introduction of the minimum wage in 2015, the assessment of its labour market impact is positive. Contrary to early warnings,...
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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the...
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European firm adjustment during times of economic crisis
This paper exploits a unique cross-country, firm-level survey to study the responses of European firms to the sharp demand and credit contraction...
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Organisationsdefizite der deutschen Gewerkschaften
The results of the recently released German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) show that in 2014 the net density rate of trade unions in Germany declined...
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Are migrants discriminated against in Chinese urban labour markets?
We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant workers in urban China, considering...
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Tarifeinheit versus Tarifpluralität: Konfliktintensität von Verhandlungen
In some industries, wage negotiations are conducted not only by labour unions covering the whole sector but also by craft unions representing single...
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Product market competition, open shop union and wage
We show that if the product market is not very much concentrated, open shop union, where the union density is less than one, may not be a...
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Profitable parallel trade in unionized markets
Why do producers often accept parallel trade in some markets such as automobiles, clothing, toys and consumer electronics? This paper points to a new...
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Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets: Simulation Results for Germany
Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity...
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Strategic Budget Constraints in a Unionized Mixed Oligopoly
This paper considers the budget-constraint problem where the government decides whether or not to impose a budget constraint on the public firm,...
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Wage discrimination and antidiscrimination policy in unionized industries
We consider industries where the equally skilled workers/members of firm-specific monopoly unions can be grouped according to different reservation...
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Labor markets and capital tax competition
Ogawa et al. (J. Urban Econ. 60:350,
2006 ) analyze capital tax competition in a fixed-wage approach and show that the original results of Zodrow and... -
Location of public and private firms under endogenous timing of choices
This paper studies the choices of locations in a mixed duopoly when production costs are endogenously determined and the public firm maximizes a...
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Are older workers overpaid? A literature review
It is widely believed that wage and productivity profiles of individual workers do not coincide at all ages. We give an overview of the theories...
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Migration and trade union rights
We study in this paper both theoretically and empirically the influence of trade union rights in origin countries on bilateral migration flows....
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Public and private sector wages interactions in a general equilibrium model
It is common wisdom that public sector wages are not determined in the same way as private sector wages. At the same time, the empirical evidence...
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Is there a signalling role for public wages? Evidence for the euro area based on macro data
Do public sector wages have an influence in the determination of private sector wages? This article tries to isolate the pure signalling effect that...
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Can domestic unions gain from offshoring?
This paper considers a unionised monopolistic firm producing a final good with isoelastic demand by using two intermediate commodities, one of which...
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A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits
In a wage bargaining model, a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages. Therefore, the benefit structure...