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Unions and Firms' Investments : A Unified View

Berton, Fabio - 2019

In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment … that the classic hold-up problem does not necessarily survive. We also derive conditions under which rent-seeking by unions …

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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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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022

Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....

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Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Fang, Tony; Hartley, John - 2022

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their … service industry, less favorable labor law, and possibly increased opposition toward unions. Methodological challenges and …

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Robots and Unions : The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment

Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary - 2022

We analyse the moderating effect of trade unions on industrial employment and unemployment in countries facing exposure … advanced democracies over 1998-2019, we find that stronger trade unions in a country are associated with a greater decline in … countries, low-educated unemployment declines with robot exposure but from a higher starting point. Our results point to unions …

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Worker Representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers

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Effects of Unionization on Workplace-Safety Enforcement : Regression-Discontinuity Evidence

Sojourner, Aaron - 2016

estimates, a regression discontinuity design compares outcomes in establishments where unions barely won representation …

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Changes in the German Wage Structure : Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Biewen, Martin - 2017

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the quantitative importance of the factors associated with the rise in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995–2010. In contrast to most previous contributions, we rely on the German Structure of Earnings Surveys (GSES) which allow...

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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to provide summary estimates of the union wage...

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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor … limiting the unions' power such as a strong exposure to international markets, high debt levels or the prevalence of flexible … on efficiency is positive and partially compensates the negative unions' effect. The results are robust to the inclusion …

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