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Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? A Survey of the Literature
Lawson, Nicholas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010
It would be hard, even today, to deny that labour unions are important economic institutions, and it is this importance that makes their consequences for efficiency so substantial. Interest in the economic analysis of unions was revived in the early 1980s, in large part by a paper by Ian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150154
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Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999
Lee, David S.; Mas, Alexandre - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009
We estimate the effect of new unionization on firms’ equity value over the 1961-1999 period using a newly assembled sample of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representation elections matched to stock market data. Event-study estimates show an average union effect on the equity value of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150169
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Demand for Labor in Nonprofit Market: University Faculty
Freeman, Richard - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1973
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701541
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Demand for Labor in Nonprofit Market: University Faculty
Freeman, Richard - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1973
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720942
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Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? A Survey of the Literature
Lawson, Nicholas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010
It would be hard, even today, to deny that labour unions are important economic institutions, and it is this importance that makes their consequences for efficiency so substantial. Interest in the economic analysis of unions was revived in the early 1980s, in large part by a paper by Ian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558712
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Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999
Lee, David S.; Mas, Alexandre - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009
We estimate the effect of new unionization on firms’ equity value over the 1961-1999 period using a newly assembled sample of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representation elections matched to stock market data. Event-study estimates show an average union effect on the equity value of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436077
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Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999
Lee, David S.; Mas, Alexandre - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2009
We estimate the effect of new unionization on firms’ equity value over the 1961-1999 period using a newly assembled sample of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representation elections matched to stock market data. Event-study estimates show an average union effect on the equity value of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738575
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Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008
50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150148
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The Incidence and Costs of Job Loss: 1982-1991
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701356
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On the Interpretation of Unemployment in Empirical Labour Supply Analysis
Ham, John C. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701384