The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …

’ home addresses to measure airport proximity, we find the risk of low birth weight babies increases by 17 percent among … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by …

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …

determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to … ; competition …

on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. -- Asymmetric information ; competition ; adverse …

implementation. For the analysis, I use a unique data set of the universe of worldwide airline bookings. On average, airlines choose … incidence increases with competition but decreases with lower demand elasticity. Furthermore, the air passenger tax reduces …