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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 …, and business failures are all relevant in assessing the future of unions and public policy with respect to unions. A …

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What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?

Even, William E. - 2010

estimate the effects of unions on risk adjusted returns and find that the union effect on performance varies in ways that are … consistent with our priors. In particular, unions have the largest negative effect among multi-employer defined contribution … plans and the negative effect of unions can be eliminated by a switch to participant direction. Also, we find that unions …

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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...

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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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An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2013

and the role of public sector unions …

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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being

Haile, Getinet A. - 2013

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?

Salvatori, Andrea - 2009

more likely to use temporary employment across Europe. To address the endogeneity of unions, I then use a British dataset … that unions contribute to creating contract duality in the labour market and thus do not limit the ability of firms to …

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Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden : 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James - 2009

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more scope for...

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Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

Addison, John T. - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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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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