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作者：Fallick, BC; Hassett, KA
摘要：Using data on union certification elections, we estimate the impact of unionization on firms' investment behavior. Employing both a standard q model and an investment surprises technique, we find that union certification significantly reduces investment in the year following the election. We find that a winning certification election has, on average, about the same effect on investment in the year following the event as would- given the elasticity measures taken from the public finance literat...
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作者：Jimenez-Martin, S
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：This article analyzes wage changes with an unbalanced panel from the Spanish Collective Bargaining in Large Firms survey. Central to the analysis are the joint determination of strike and wage outcomes and, in particular, the estimation of the slope of the wage concession curve. I control for the possible endogeneity of strike variables in the wage equation and suggest two sets of instruments: lagged strike outcomes or reduced-form predictions of the strike variables. When controlling for endo...
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作者：Kuhn, P; Gu, WL
作者单位：McMaster University
摘要：When union-firm pairs bargain sequentially, and when unobserved components of firms' abilities to pay are subject to correlated shocks, unions that bargain later in a sequence can acquire valuable information by observing previous bargaining outcomes in their industry. We derive the implications of this kind of learning in an asymmetric information model of wage negotiations and argue that the most robust implication is a lower incidence of strikes among followers than leaders in wage negotiat...
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作者：Anderson, PM; Gustman, AL; Steinmeier, TL
作者单位：Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：This article estimates the effects of changes in pension plans and social security in the 1970s and 1980s on the steady state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a structural retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of ...
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作者：Dickinson, DL
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; Utah State University
摘要：Estimated negative substitution effects on work hours question the empirical validity of the classical labor supply model. Estimates are reconciled by allowing a dual choice of hours and effort for piece-rate workers. In such a model, these negative substitution effects result from substituting on- and off-the-job leisure. We test our model using controlled experimentation on human subjects. These experiments, while not naturally occurring environments, represent real economic choices and can ...
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作者：Baker, M; Benjamin, D; Stanger, S
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Toronto
摘要：We examine the effects of minimum wage legislation in Canada over the period 1975-93. For teenagers we find that a 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with roughly a 2.5% decrease in employment. We also find that this result is driven by low frequency variation in the data. At high frequencies the elasticity is positive and insignificant. The difference in the elasticity across the bandwidth has implications for the interpretation of employment dynamics as a result of minimum wage p...
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作者：Neumark, D
作者单位：Michigan State University
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作者：Sasaki, M
作者单位：Georgetown University; The World Bank
摘要：This article analyzes the effect of coworker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and females using a search model. An increase in female participation drives up the wage offer to female workers and raises female employment. Moreover, an increase in the degree of discrimination by males results in gains to them in terms of higher wages and lower unemployment but results in losses to females in terms of lower wages and higher unemployment. The benefit to males pro...
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作者：Green, DA
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：This article compares immigrant and native-born male occupational distributions in Canada in the 1980s. Three questions are addressed: (1) How do immigrant and native-born occupational distributions differ? (2) Are immigrants more occupationally mobile? and (3) How do immigrant occupations and mobility relate to characteristics used in immigrant selection! Results indicate that immigrants are more skilled, but this declines across successive cohorts. Immigrants are more occupationally mobile e...
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作者：Parent, D
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; McGill University; McGill University
摘要：Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article examines the impact of employer provided training on the wage profile and on the mobility of young workers. The main results ape that (i) training with the current employer has a positive effect on the wage; (ii) employers seem to reward skills acquired through training with previous employers as much as skills they provide themselves; and (iii) part of the skills acquired through training programs provided by the current ...
