costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension assets to promote union goals will vary with … the design of the pension. Using panel data on over 36,000 pension plans drawn from IRS Form 5500 filings, we empirically … estimate the effects of unions on risk adjusted returns and find that the union effect on performance varies in ways that are …

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring … countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage … distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market …

of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages. This … differentials, product market regulation and the labor market, wages in male and female jobs, the wage effects of military service …, and interarea wages and cost-of-living. …

questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual …

benefits was added to the sample. This version now contains exact daily flow information on the employment history of 559 …,540 persons as recorded by the social insurance system and on periods of drawing benefits as well. It allows to reproduce …

, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …