Essays on Labor Markets
In Chapter 3, I develop a model of voluntary union membership, where unions provide excludable employment protection to members, by supporting them in case of dismissal conflicts and enforcing higher firing costs. When calibrated to match the features of labor markets in different European countries the model is able to account for differences in membership rates. Specifically I find that membership rates (i) are low in countries where public employment protection is stronger, and/or available to a wider fraction of workers; (ii) decrease when low unemployment duration reduces the welfare loss of a dismissal.Finally, in Italy, having a college degree reduces the chances of having a temporary job. The results of the simple ... opposite is true in the US. That might be due to two reasons: i) in the US students accumulate work experience even when inanbsp;...
| Title | : | Essays on Labor Markets |
| Author | : | Fabrizio Colonna |
| Publisher | : | ProQuest - 2008 |
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