The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …

union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …

, wages of both skill groups, and unemployment. In contrast to the canonical model with a fixed task allocation, low …-skilled workers may be harmed in terms of either lower wages or higher unemployment depending on the relative task …

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing …, wages are likely to head upward as carriers' financial health returns. Such wage levels may or may not be sustainable in the …

In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal … different institutions can affect this inefficiency. Industry-level minimum wages can remove the training inefficiency and … of training intensity. Second, firmspecific unions, through raising relative wages and reducing turnover, can increase …

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their …

. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with no commitment, under the assumption that the union chooses wages each … entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and …