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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also … constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate whether this social aspect of organizations has an important benefit … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …

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Field Experiments with Firms

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light...

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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Booth, Alison L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...

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Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size

Baert, Stijn; Omey, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the causal impact of revealing pro-unionism during the recruitment stage on hiring chances. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market. When matched with employer and sector data, the experimentally gathered data enable us to test the...

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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Teal, Francis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data...

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Union Decline in Britain

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...

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Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges

Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Surveying some recent data and the empirical literature from various disciplines, this paper attempts to shed some light on what we know and don't know about (trends in) unionization and its determinants in advanced countries. It shows that there are relatively few robust stylized facts, for...

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Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Trade unionism is a legislative system of organizing workers and raising voices for economic and social goods. As the process of global integration deepens the labour market become more flexible and fragmented, rendering collective organization more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the...

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How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being

Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or...

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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions In the UK Public and Private Sectors

Blanchflower, David; Bryson, Alex - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...

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