Calendrier du 25 novembre 2021
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 25/11/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R2-01
ASKENAZY Philippe (CMH-CNRS-ENS-PSL)
The geography of collective bargaining in multi-establishment companies: a strategic choice of employers?
écrit avec Clémentine Cottineau (U Delft and CNRS)
Despite the growing interest in the firm bargaining process, little research has focused on the structure of bargaining within a multi-establishment firm. This paper explores whether running negotiation at the very decentralized level of the workplaces and/or at a multi-establishment level is an employer's strategic choice to maximise profits. We propose a model where the level chosen for bargaining depends on the geography of the firm. The employer faces a trade-off: workplace level bargaining allows deals that meet local conditions; but a higher level increases the distance between workers and their representatives, weakening their bargaining power. Using a representative survey of French establishments merged with administrative sources, we test this model and find a significant relation between the level of bargaining within a firm and the spatial distribution of its facilities.
Behavior seminar
Du 25/11/2021 de 10:00 à 11:00
ZOOM SEMINAR
GROSJEAN Pauline (ARC Future Fellow School of Economics | University of New South Wales | Sydney 2052)
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France
We measure the effects of a network of heroes in legitimizing and diffusing extreme political
behaviors. Exploiting newly-declassifed intelligence files, novel voting data and regimen-
tal histories, we show the home municipalities of French line regiments arbitrarily rotated
through Philippe Pétain's command during the heroic WWI battle of Verdun, though similar
before WWI, increasingly espouse Pétain's authoritarian political views thereafter, raising
7% more active Nazi collaborators per capita during the Pétain-led Vichy regime (1940-44).
The effects are similar across joining Fascist parties, German forces, paramilitaries hunting
Jews and the Resistance, and collaborating economically.