This paper analyzes the effect of the particular stage of wage settlement on the negotiated wage increase, using micro data on Canadian labor contracts between 1966 and 1975. The sample data base was divided into direct first-stage bargaining, mediation-conciliation, and work...

Using extensive Canadian longitudinal data from the years 1969-71, the authors estimate union-nonunion wage differentials of 12-14% for 1969 and 13-16% for 1970. These estimates are not adjusted for selectivity because three different tests to identify selectivity yield no evidence of...

Examines the impact of trade unions on money wages in Canada from 1953 to 1970. Flaws of the Hines model; Overview of the bargaining theory of wage determination; How strike decisions are made by unions; Prospective properties of equations. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

The authors search information on the provisions of 10,947 wage contracts signed in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976 and 1999 for evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity (the disinclination of wages to fall, in nominal dollars, below their established level). Over the sample period,...