setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …

wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …

bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … workers in the production sectors always benefits arbitrarily poor workers regardless of their distortionary effect on the …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …