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Pencavel, John - 2003

productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990 …

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Effect of International Competition on Firm Productivity and Market Power

De Loecker, Jan - 2016

We propose a framework to evaluate the potential impact of international competition on firm performance and highlight two points. First, it is important to consider effects on productive efficiency and market power in an integrated framework. The popular concept of (revenue) TFP combines both...

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Standard-Rate Wage Setting, Labor Quality, and Unions

Brown, Charles - 1985

"Standard rate" wage policies, under which all workers in a particular job receive the same wage, are common for blue-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and those who work for large employers.This paper analyzes the impact of standard-rate wage...

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Union Wage Settlements During a Disinflation

Taylor, John B. - 1982

This paper examines the role of union wage contracts in the persistence of inflation, and the implication of these contracts for the problem of disinflation in the United States. A quantitative model of overlapping con- tracts explicitly oriented toward the major union sector is developed. The...

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Foreign Competition and Innovation

Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

. As a result, aggregate sectoral innovation may rise or decline, depending on the productivity distribution of the …

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Unionization and Firm Performance : The Impact on Profits, Growth and Productivity

Clark, Kim B. - 1982

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John - 2004

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages …

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Labor-Market Matching with Precautionary Savings and Aggregate Fluctuations

Krusell, Per - 2009

matching function. Wages are determined through Nash bargaining. We also consider aggregate productivity shocks, and a complete … demonstrate that productivity changes in the model---in steady state as well as stochastic ones---generate rather limited …

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Unionism Comes to the Public Sector

Freeman, Richard B. - 1984

This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability to shift demand curves rather than to raise wages, as is the case in the private sector. It reviews the public sector labor relations literature and finds that: (i) public...

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The Impact of Collective Bargaining : Can the New Facts Be Explained by Monopoly Unionism?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1982

In this paper we focus our attention on the question of whether union/nonunion differences in nonwage outcomes can, in fact, be explained in terms of standard price-theoretic responses to real wage effects, as opposed to the real effect of unionism on economic behavior. We reach three basic...

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