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DOI: 10.4236/tel.2019.95094

Union membership and employment dynamics: The role of the union objective function

Theoretical Economics Letters, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1473-1479

2019

This paper studies the behaviour of a labour union in a model with employment and membership dynamics. It is known from the literature that the relative level of employment between intertemporal and static union models is affected by the structure of the union density function. We show that this result does not hold in general but rather that it depends on the union objective function. If the union maximises the wage bill of their members, employment in the intertemporal model will differ from employment in the static model depending on the union density function. However, if the union maximises the rent from unionisation, the intertemporal model will yield the same level of employment as the static model regardless of the union density.

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B. Mey, Marcus Dittrich

Are people satisfied with their time use?

Empirical evidence from German survey data

Economics Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 2903-2914

2015

Using data from the German Time Use Survey, we examine how people allocate their time and how satisfied people are with their time use. Our results suggest that people are more satisfied with the time spent on work and work-related activities than with the time spent on leisure, family, and friends. Moreover, we find that non-employed individuals are more satisfied with their time spent on private and leisure activities than employed individuals. Exploring the factors that affect overall time use satisfaction, we find - among significant age and gender effects - a much more positive effect of time spent on various leisure activities for employed than for non-employed individuals.

S. Städter, Marcus Dittrich

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Moral hazard and bargaining over incentive contracts

Research in Economics, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 75-85

2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.rie.2014.10.002

This paper analyses bargaining over an incentive compatible contract in a moral hazard framework. We introduce the Kalai–Smorodinsky bargaining solution and compare the outcome with the commonly applied Nash solution. Whether worker׳s effort is higher in the Nash or the Kalai–Smorodinsky solution depends on the agents׳ bargaining power. The social planner can mitigate inefficiencies arising in both bargaining solutions from the moral hazard problem and even achieve the first-best outcome by allocating the agents׳ bargaining power. If raising the worker׳s bargaining power is necessary to achieve the first-best solution, this increase must be higher in the Nash solution than in the Kalai–Smorodinsky solution.

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B. Mey, Marcus Dittrich

Gender differences in volunteer activities: Evidence from German survey data

Economics Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 349-360

2015

In this study, we examine the gender differences in formal and informal volunteering using data from a Time Use Survey in Germany. Our study finds strong evidence that women are more likely to volunteer formally if they also volunteer informally, suggesting that the decisions are complementary. However, for men the decisions to volunteer formally and informally are not significantly related. Moreover, we find that gender differences in labour force participation cannot explain our results.

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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1019036

Gender differences in trust and reciprocity: Evidence from a large-scale experiment with heterogenous subjects

Applied Economics, vol. 47, no. 36, pp. 3825-3838

2015

This article examines gender differences in an experimental trust game. Recent studies have shown that men trust more and that women are more reciprocal in laboratory experiments. Participants in these studies, however, are typically university students who may not be representative of the entire population. In this study, we use data from a large-scale experiment with heterogeneous subjects who are representative of the German population. We find that men exhibit not only more trusting behaviour, but also more reciprocating behaviour than women. Moreover, our results are indicative of age-dependent gender differences. For men, we find an inverse U-shaped relationship between age, on the one hand, and both trust and reciprocity, on the other; however, we do not find age effects for women.

Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl, Ronald Hartz, Marcus Dittrich

Buch (Monographie)

Perspektiven der Wirtschaftswissenschaften

2014

ISBN: 978-3658035990

K. Leipold, Marcus Dittrich

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Gender differences in time preferences

Economics Letters, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 413-415

2014

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A. Knabe, K. Leipold, Marcus Dittrich

Spillover effects of minimum wages: Theory and experimental evidence

CESifo Economic Studies, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 780-804

2014

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A. Knabe, K. Leipold, Marcus Dittrich

Gender differences in experimental wage negotations

Economic Inquiry, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 862-873

2014

A. Knabe, Marcus Dittrich

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Spillover effects of minimum wages under union wage bargaining

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 169, no. 3, pp. 506-518

2013

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M. Kliegel, M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, K. Leipold, N. Vetter, Marcus Dittrich

Individual and developmental differences in the relationship between preferences and theory of mind

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 236-251

2013

B. Schirwitz, Marcus Dittrich

Beitrag (Sammelband oder Tagungsband)

Union membership, employment dynamics and bargaining structure (Chapter 5)

Labour markets at a crossroads, Newcastle upon Tyne

2012

ISBN: 978-1443836104

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Martin Myant/Jan Drahokoupil (2010): Transition economies: Political economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (Book Review)

Journal for East European Management Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 185-186

2011

B. Schirwitz, Marcus Dittrich

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Unions - the bigger, the worse? Centralization and the scope of bargaining

Journal of Economic Research, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 231-255

2011

B. Schirwitz, Marcus Dittrich

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Union membership and employment dynamics: A note

Economics Letters, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 38-40

2011

A. Knabe, Marcus Dittrich

Internetdokument

Warum selbst niedrige Mindestlöhne schädlich sein können

29.10.2010

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Welfare effects of local versus central wage bargaining

LABOUR, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 24-36

2010

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Minimum wages and unemployment benefits in a unionised economy: A game-theoretic approach

Annals of Economics and Finance, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 209-229

2010

K. Leipold, Marcus Dittrich

Beitrag (Sammelband oder Tagungsband)

Public-Goods-Experimente: Stand der ökonomischen Forschung und gesellschaftspolitische Implikationen

Geist und Gesellschaft, Stuttgart

2009

ISBN: 978-3777617916