Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring … countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage … distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market …

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

well as the role of changing attitudes of employees towards unions are not fully clear, but the rise of the informal sector …

their pioneering contribution What Do Unions Do? It takes note of theoretical and empirical work supportive of … criticism of What Do Unions Do? has been wide of the mark, there are critical areas in which the model is deficient. These … consequences of unions. …

Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions … hold up, although more evidence is needed. Subsequent literature continues to find unions associated with lower … profitability, as noted by Freeman and Medoff. Unions are found to tax returns stemming from market power, but industry …

of the system of industrial relations, Italian unions may contribute to inequality reduction through either national …

productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990 …