bargaining. We hope that such an interest may help close the gap between how economists tend to model wage setting and how wages … that firms or employer associations bargain with unions over wages, producing collective bargaining systems. We show that …In this article, we document and discuss salient features of collective bargaining systems in the OECD countries, with …

This paper uses two complementary approaches to estimate the effect of right-to-work (RTW) laws on wages and … indicate that RTW laws lower wages and unionization rates. Under the assumption that RTW laws only affect wages by lowering the … unionization rate, RTW can be used as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of unions on wages. In our …

We examine union-non-union differentials in wages and hours in the United States over the last 50 years using data from … earnings has been falling since the Great Recession. The union differential in weekly wages has been more stable. Although it … reflects unions' ability to tackle under-employment, such that union workers work closer to the hours they desire than their …

required in later employment. Our findings reveal a postdoc salary penalty when task mismatch is high, which is frequent, and a …

comparisons and caused employers to bargain more aggressively, lowering average wages. Other pay transparency policies, without …

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …