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 …

"We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do … firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in product markets? How does the amount of … quality. The empirical strategy is based on Guiso et al. (2005). We first estimate dynamic models of sales and wages to …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers wages …

-unionised sector coexist, and only unionized firms are bound by union wages. The model creates a rich set of empirical implications …

union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …

licensing is associated with about 18 percent higher wages, but the effect of governmental certification on pay is much smaller … little association between licensing and the variance of wages, in contrast to unions. Overall, our results show that … licensing ; labor market institutions ; labor market data ; wages and labor market institutions ; wage inequality and labor …