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Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality Open
Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that labor unions, on balance, reduce economic disparities. But unions are complicated, multifaceted organizations straddling markets and politics. Much of t…
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The Deregulation of the Private Equity Markets and the Decline in IPOs Open
The deregulation of securities laws—in particular the National Securities Markets Improvement Act (NSMIA) of 1996—has increased the supply of private capital to late-stage private startups, which are now able to grow to a size that few pri…
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A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy Open
Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been developed in recent years, which promise more effe…
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Stacking up the ladder: A panel data analysis of Tanzanian household energy choices Open
Energy-use statistics in Tanzania reflect the country's low level of industrialization and development. In 2016, only 16.9% of rural and 65.3% of urban inhabitants in mainland Tanzania were connected to some form of electricity. We use a n…
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The Effect of Female Economic Empowerment Interventions on the Risk of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
Women’s economic empowerment is an essential component of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Not only is it an end in itself but it has further been promoted for its potential to create positive externalities, including the …
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Is China eroding the bargaining power of traditional donors in Africa? Open
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Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India Open
Is there an alternative model to small family farming that could provide sustainable livelihoods to millions of resource-constrained and often non-viable smallholders in developing countries? Could group farming constitute such an alternat…
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The effects of labour market reforms upon unemployment and income inequalities: an agent-based model Open
This work analyses the effects of labour market structural reforms by means of the labour-augmented ‘Schumpeter meeting Keynes’ (KþS) Agent-Based model. We introduce a policy regime change characterized by a set of structural reforms on th…
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Gender differences in the quality of leisure: a cross-national comparison Open
Considerable work-family research has investigated the gendered division of work and care. Gender differences in leisure time have received much less attention from work-family scholars, despite the potential importance of such inequalitie…
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Market power and bargaining in agrifood markets: A review of emerging topics and tools Open
Recent developments in modern agri‐food markets have called into question the predictive capability of the traditional models and tools used by agricultural economists to assess and measure market power. As a result, agricultural economist…
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Bargaining success in the reform of the Eurozone Open
This article provides a systematic assessment of bargaining success in the reform of the Eurozone 2010 to 2015. Theoretically, we develop an argument about preferences and institutions as determinants of bargaining success and contrast thi…
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He Says, She Says: Spousal Disagreement in Survey Measures of Bargaining Power Open
Measures of control over assets and participation in household decisions are often used as indicators of bargaining power. Yet spouses do not necessarily provide the same responses to questions about these topics. Using household survey da…
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When Do Powerful Stakeholders Give Managers the Latitude to Balance All Stakeholders’ Interests? Open
Research in instrumental stakeholder theory often discusses the benefits of a stakeholder strategy that balances all stakeholders’ interests as if the firm’s managers were not constrained much in choosing a strategy. Yet, through their val…
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Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency Open
The discourse around pay transparency has focused on partial equilibrium effects: how workers rectify pay inequities through informed renegotiation. We investigate how employers respond in equilibrium. We study a model of bargaining under …
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Links between Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Rural Tanzania Open
Improving child nutrition and empowering women are two important and closely connected development goals. Fostering female employment is often seen as an avenue to serve both these goals, especially if it helps to empower the mothers of un…
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Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements Open
We investigate the effect of domestic politics on international environmental policy by incorporating into a classic stage game of coalition formation the phenomenon of lobbying by special-interest groups. In doing so, we contribute to the…
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Risk Management with Supply Contracts Open
Purchase obligations are forward contracts with suppliers and are used more broadly than traded commodity derivatives. This paper is the first to document that these contracts are a risk management tool and have a material impact on corpor…
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Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy Open
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under …
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The Importance of Contract Farming to Small-scale Farmers in Africa and the Implications for Policy: A Review Scenario Open
Introduction: Contract Farming (CF) has been largely believed to have the ability to promote the chances of Small-scale Farmers (SSFs) from less developed nations to participate in intensive agricultural production and lucrative export mar…
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Who Killed the Phillips Curve? A Murder Mystery Open
Is the Phillips curve dead? If so, who killed it? Conventional wisdom has it that the sound monetary policy since the 1980s not only conquered the Great Inflation, but also buried the Phillips curve itself. This paper provides an alternati…
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Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies Open
We provide a unified language for studying power sharing in authoritarian regimes. Power-sharing deals entail not only sharing spoils between a ruler and challenger, but also establishing an enforcement mechanism. An arrangement does not t…
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Is Porter's Five Forces Framework Still Relevant? A study of the capital/labour intensity continuum via mining and IT industries Open
Porter's Five Forces (P5F) framework, published in 1979, helps us to understand the attractiveness of an industry. The five competitive forces are: the threat of new entrants, the bargaining power of buyers, the bargaining power of supplie…
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Business Against Markets: Employer Resistance to Collective Bargaining Liberalization During the Eurozone Crisis Open
Employer organizations have been presented as strong promoters of the liberalization of industrial relations in Europe. This article, in contrast, argues that the preferences of employers vis-à-vis liberalization are heterogeneous and docu…
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Value Chains and Technology Transfer to Agriculture in Developing and Emerging Economies Open
Value chains in the agrifood sector are undergoing a rapid process of modernization, characterized by the emergence of private standards and different systems of vertical value chain governance. In this article, we investigate the technolo…
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Economic Integration and State Responses: Change in European Industrial Relations since Maastricht Open
The article analyses industrial relations change in the six largest EU countries since 1992 in relation to increased internationalization pressures. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis, it distinguishes between associational and…
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Smallholder bargaining power in large-scale land deals: a relational perspective Open
What capacity do smallholders have to influence key decisions in large-scale land deals to their own advantage, in particular in their own localities? Though the cards are stacked against them, micro processes on the ground show great vari…
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The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action Open
We give an overview of the “German model” of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany ou…
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Becoming a ‘Labour Migrant’: Immigration Regulations as a Frame of Reference for Migrant Employment Open
This article addresses the role of immigration regulations as a frame of reference for migrant employment before obtaining permanent residency status. Drawing on interviews with non-EU migrants and service sector employers in the Helsinki …
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Exploring the Sustainability of the Cooperative Model in Dairy: The Case of the Netherlands Open
Dairy cooperatives have existed in the Netherlands for more than 130 years. They hold a joint market share of more than 80% since the 1950s. This suggests that cooperatives are durable organizations in the dairy industry of the Netherlands…
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Employee bargaining power, inter-firm competition, and equity-based compensation Open
We develop a model to illustrate that equity-based compensation for non-executive employees and product market decisions are related. When the product market is competitive and employees have low bargaining power, the unique equilibrium is…