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Union Density, Productivity and Wages
Barth, Erling - 2017
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 productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of … unionization. The wage effect is larger in more productive firms, consistent with rent-sharing models …
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Unionization and Productivity : Evidence from Charter Schools
Hart, Cassandra - 2014
This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of … teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on … one-year dip in achievement associated with the unionization process itself, unionization does not affect student …
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with wages, productivity, profitability, investment, debt, employment growth …
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What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?
Even, William E. - 2010
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted 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...
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137250
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career : Gender, Unionism, and Sector
Addison, John T. - 2012
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...
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Recent Longitudinal Evidence of Size and Union Threat Effects Across Genders
Wunnava, Phani V. - 2012
the gender union wage gap. In other words, the threat of unionization could reduce union wage premiums for both genders as …
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
Goerke, Laszlo - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...
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Union Decline in Britain : Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?
Haile, Getinet A. - 2012
The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators it reports an inverse relationship between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106636
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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Sojourner, Aaron - 2012
studying the relationship between state legislators' occupations and the unionization rates of occupations across U.S. states …. The fraction of legislators of a given occupation in a state increases with the occupation's rate of unionization in that … state compared to the fraction of legislators of the same occupation in other states with lower unionization rates. This …
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