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 …

representation on the corporate board. However, these gains in wages and declines in earnings risk are not caused by worker …

reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a …. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … follow-up survey shows that these women became more interested and aware of pension schemes and retirement options after …

unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency costs of income redistribution, because unemployment benefits and income taxes …This paper extends the Diamond (1980) model with labor unions to study optimal income taxation and to analyze whether …

opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the …