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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation: transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2013

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The Economics of Employment Protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing...

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Union Voice

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2003

This paper offers a critical evaluation of the notion of collective voice, advanced by Freeman and Medoff (1984) in their pioneering contribution What Do Unions Do? It takes note of theoretical and empirical work supportive of/consistent with the collective voice/institutional response model,...

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Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory : International Evidence

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher (1983), in conjunction with …

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Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a …

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The dilemma of delegating search: Budgeting in public employment services

Addison, John T.; Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Kuhn, Thomas - 2010

The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....

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Building blocks in the economics of mandates

Addison, John T.; Barrett, Charles Richard; Siebert, … - 2005

The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also redistribute in favour of more deserving workers. The risk is that it may also reduce output. The more...

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