costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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 …

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions — to examine the … firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions push immigrants to enter lower-paying and lower-quality firms with …

return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension assets to promote union goals will vary with … the design of the pension. Using panel data on over 36,000 pension plans drawn from IRS Form 5500 filings, we empirically … estimate the effects of unions on risk adjusted returns and find that the union effect on performance varies in ways that are …

return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension assets to promote union goals will vary with … the design of the pension. Using panel data on over 36,000 pension plans drawn from IRS Form 5500 filings, we empirically … estimate the effects of unions on risk adjusted returns and find that the union effect on performance varies in ways that are …

from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis extends beyond wages to rates of employment-based health insurance …

it is generally successful in explaining bilateral financial flows. If the pension gap were to be financed through the …

This Selected Issues paper examines the long-term issues with pension expenditures in the Netherlands. The paper … highlights that the public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage. The minimum wage … and public pensions thus move in lock-step; they are both by law indexed to contract wages in the private sector. This …