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well as the role of changing attitudes of employees towards unions are not fully clear, but the rise of the informal sector …
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The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
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In this article we re-examine the relationship between group-based profit sharing and productivity. Our meta-regression analysis of 313 estimates from 56 studies controls for publication selection and misspecification biases and investigates the impact of firm level unionisation and national...
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even after controlling for unions and HIHR policies. There is no evidence in our estimates of negative interaction effects … (i.e., that unions or HIHR negatively influence the functioning of JCCs with respect to employee satisfaction) or full … mediation (i.e., that unions or HIHR are substitutes for JCCs when it comes to improving self-reported worker well-being). If …
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unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
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In this paper we present a search and matching model in which firms invest in sunk capital equipment. By comparing two wage setting scenarios, we show that a two-tier bargaining scheme, where a fraction of the salary is negotiated at firm level, raises the amount of investment per worker in the...
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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 wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...
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This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly … unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital …
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Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have …
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