Search for dissertations about: "Wage Coordination"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words Wage Coordination.
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1. Roads from Unemployment : Institutional Complementarities in Product and Labor Markets
Abstract : Bringing down unemployment is a top priority for governments across the industrialized world, regardless of ideological bent. What is at issue in the political debate is not if unemployment should be combatted, but by what means. READ MORE
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2. Environmental policy and transboundary externalities : coordination and commitment in open economies
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four papers, which relate to environmental policy in the presence of transboundary environmental damage. Paper [I] concerns public policy in a multi-jurisdiction framework with transboundary environmental damage. READ MORE
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3. The Fate of Organized Labor : Explaining Unionization, Wage Inequality, and Strikes across Time and Space
Abstract : The point of departure for this thesis is the divergent fate of organized labor during the last decades in the Western world. Given what we know about actual trends, how are we to explain the variation in the strength of organized labor across time and space? The thesis consists of four self-contained essays. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Household Behavior and Time-Use
Abstract : Essay 1 studies the household's decision to supply labor and tests if the so-called unitary model holds. What is subject to a test is the resulting symmetry of the Slutsky matrix, i.e., that the compensated cross-wage effects are equal. READ MORE
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5. Education, Stratification and Reform : Educational Institutions in Comparative Perspective
Abstract : The main argument of this thesis is that research has to take the institutional character of education seriously. Educational institutions carry considerable weight for outcomes of education and their design is a matter of intense political debate. READ MORE