analysed. The evidence on the economic effects of unions – on wages, employment, working conditions, negotiations and profits …

incorporated in a wage‐bargaining model with asymmetric information. Indicates that the impact of multinational enterprise on wages …Considers the role of multinational enterprise in the determination of relative wages. Multinationality of the firm is …

time in response to changes in collective bargaining, in particular the move from pit‐level piece‐work bargaining to … national‐level day rate bargaining. Given the decline of strike activity in the UK and many other industrialized economies in …

‐union wages. We find strong evidence supporting the ability to pay hypothesis. There is no indication of bargaining strength …Past studies on foreign corporate investment and wages hypothesize that by expanding into highly concentrated and … highly capital intensive industries, foreign owners are better able to pay higher wages than their domestic counterparts. Our …

to have a positive effect on a bargaining unit′s duration of normal working during a current contract negotiation. For …

; their wages are substantially higher than what they would have obtained had they chosen paid work. Furthermore, even after …

in productivity and 0.04 per cent in wages, or an increase of 0.16 and 0.08 per cent, respectively, if one uses firm … all the gains accruing to workers through higher wages on the other. …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the influence of workplace teams on wages and wage dispersion within … wages but negatively associated with wage dispersion within establishments. The four team variables examined have the same … directional influence on both wages and dispersion suggesting that it is the use of teams that is important not necessarily the …