reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …

declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into …

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

"comparability" process determining their wages …

excess supply. The net union premium was estimated by relating changes in wages to changes in union status of the same worker … measured by wages. This conclusion was less reliable for older workers. Subsequent analysis explores the effects of successful … whole tenure profile of wages. The explicit linking of wage levels to seniority reduces incentives for worker investment in …

. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

This paper analyses the relation between the percent of workers organized in a product market and the wages received by … coverage and wages using information on individuals and on establishments shows the expected positive relation for union … workers across manufacturing industries. By contrast, nonunion wages in manufacturing appear to be unrelated or only modestly …

This study examines the effect of trade unionism on the dispersion of wages among male wage and salary workers in the … dominate the more widely studied impact of unionism on the dispersion of average wages across industries, so that on net …