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Productivity Dynamics : The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas - 2019

changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …

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Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2023

the theory with workplace data for Britain and Norway. Results are consistent with the theory: local union bargaining is …

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Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Barth, Erling - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm 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...

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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Papps, Kerry L. - 2019

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...

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The Performance Pay Premium : How Big is it and Does it Affect Wage Dispersion?

Bryson, Alex - 2014

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay employees is .36 points. This falls to .15 log points after controlling for observable demographic,...

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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-Members' Well-Being

Haile, Getinet A. - 2014

The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...

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UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action

Willman, Paul - 2016

This paper looks at the financial resources of trades unions in the UK, both updating previous work and attempting to understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. First order problems refer to the problems of initiating collective action and second order...

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