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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion : New Evidence from the Americas
Rios Avila, Fernando - 2012
countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Pencavel, John H. - 2020
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased,...
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust : Evidence from Cross-Country Data
Addison, John T. - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962271
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The 'Good Workplace' : The Role of Joint Consultative Committees, Unions and HR Policies in Employee Ratings of Workplaces in Britain
Barry, Michael - 2018
Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible interactions with union and management-led high-commitment strategies. We focus on non-union...
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Collective Bargaining for Women : How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs
Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...
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Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse
Loayza, Norman - 2013
mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have … higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and geographic distance …. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the current social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085487
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012
-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104056
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894075
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Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police : Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments
Chong, Alberto - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057916