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Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Boeri, Tito - 2009

Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by concerns that foreigners are a net fiscal burden. Paradoxically instruments of social inclusion are becoming a weapon of mass exclusion. Increasing concerns of public opinion are...

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Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union : Re-Examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010

This paper documents evidence that rejects the paradox of dissatisfied union members. Using eleven waves of the BHPS, it studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on job satisfaction. By separating union "free-riders" from other nonmembers in the fixed effects...

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Labour Demand Research : Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

Addison, John T. - 2014

At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...

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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2014

A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...

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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment : The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Farber, Henry S. - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...

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Unionization and Productivity : Evidence from Charter Schools

Hart, Cassandra - 2014

This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...

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Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions : The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure

Barth, Erling; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021

In this paper, we investigate the effects of the boom in education on the wage structure in Europe. We use detailed information on the distribution of wages, estimated from microdata from 12 European countries from the beginning of the 1980's to the present, to analyse the changes both between...

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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation : An Analytic Framework

Autor, David H. - 2021

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems : A Note (Do Brown and Heywood's Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2021

This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood's analysis of the determinants of performance … - we reach one central point of agreement and one intriguing shared insight. First, performance appraisal is negatively … monitoring and performance pay may be complementary. However, consonant with the disparate results from the wider literature …

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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

performance by union companies. Two industries - automotives and airlines - are used to illustrate these points. If worker …

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