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Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have … 6%, while there is little evidence of an impact on hourly wages. The effects on long hours are larger in more unionized …
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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 …
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and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local regional-industrial unionisation increases, wages grow. Lay …
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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 …
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To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...
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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 …
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Union, nonunion, and overall wages, plus regression-based union wage gap estimates, are provided annually, beginning in …
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Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their …
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Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for...
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We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...
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