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Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
Cullen, Zoë B.; Pakzad-Hurson, Bobak - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received less attention. To study these...
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Rational Atrophy : The US Steel Industry
Tornell, Aaron - 1997
During the seventies and eighties the US steel industry received trade protection. However, these rents were not used to improve competitiveness. Instead, they were reflected in higher wages and a greater share of profits invested in sectors not related to steel. Moreover, the steel industry...
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The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector : No Policy May Be the Worst Policy
Currie, Janet - 1992
This paper estimates the impact of collective bargaining legislation on disputes during labor negotiations in the U.S. public sector. We use a large national sample of U.S. state and local government contracts to compare the incidence and intensity of disputes by similar workers under different...
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The Effects of International Competiton on Collective Bargaining Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada
Abowd, John M. - 1990
price index for the industry are associated with increased union employment. Increases in the world import price index for … the industry are associated with increased union employment and lower wage settlements …
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Unions, wages and hours
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine union-non-union differentials in wages and hours in the United States over the last 50 years using data from … the Current Population Survey (CPS). The regression-adjusted difference between union members' and non-members' hourly … earnings has been falling since the Great Recession. The union differential in weekly wages has been more stable. Although it …
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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
beliefs about labor market tightness moderately raises support for union activity. Effect sizes are small as they imply that … moving from trough to peak of the business cycle increases workers' probability of voting for a union by one percentage point … counties over several decades. We find no systematic effect of changes in aggregate labor market tightness on union membership …
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Labor Unions and Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Fang, Hanming; Komatsu, Katsuhiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
insurance expansions contribute to the union's decline. We then develop and estimate an equilibrium labor search model where …-biased technological changes and Right-to-Work laws respectively explain 32% and 7% of the union decline from 1955 to 2019, social …
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The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes
Arnold Lyon, Melissa; Kraft, Matthew A.; Steinberg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The U.S. has witnessed a resurgence of labor activism, with teachers at the forefront. We examine how teacher strikes affect compensation, working conditions, and productivity with an original dataset of 772 teacher strikes generating 48 million student days idle between 2007 and 2023. Using an...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract : The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...
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