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Bankruptcy and the Cost of Organized Labor : Evidence from Union Elections

Campello, Murillo - 2017

Unionized workers are entitled to special treatment in bankruptcy court. This can be detrimental to other corporate stakeholders in default states, with unsecured creditors standing to lose the most. Using data on union elections covering several decades, we employ a regression discontinuity...

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Unions and Managerial Pay

DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2022

effect on the managers of unionized firms. To this end we" collected and assembled data on unionization and managerial pay …" where unions are stronger, fewer managers are employed …

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Employer Behavior in the Face of Union Organizing Drives

Freeman, Richard B.; Kleiner, Morris M. - 2021

/supervisory practices and "tough" management opposition to unionism. - that a high innate propensity for a union victory deters management … intensely against the union. - that the careers of managers whose wages/supervisory practices/ benefits lead to union organizing … management opposition, reflected in diverse forms of behavior, is a key component in the on-going decline in private sector …

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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union

Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021

This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully characterized as the outcome of a process by which...

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Contraction and Expansion : the Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in Tht U.S

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

sector decline is increased management opposition to union organization, motivated in part by profit-seeking behavior, and …

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Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This study uses establishment level data to examine the effect of unionism on the wage structure within establishments. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through explicit wage practices, such as single rate or automatic...

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The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Union Organizing

Ellwood, David T.; Fine, Glenn A. - 2021

In contrast to previous studies which have examined the impact of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on the level or stock of union membership, this paper examines their impact on the most updated flow into membership and the organizing of workers through certified elections. Since detailed annual data...

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Union Maids : Unions and the Female Workforce

Freeman, Richard B.; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021

How have women fared in unions in recent years? The major findings of this paper are that unions have been more beneficial for women in the public sector than in the private sector, and that unionism for women is primarily a public sector wriite collar phenomenon distinguished from that of...

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The Effect of Unionism on Productivity in Privately and Publicly Owned Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Allen, Steven G. - 2021

This paper examines the effect of unions on productivity within a sample of publicly and privately owned hospitals and nursing homes to determine whether public ownership influences union behavior. The results show that the productivity of union contractors is much greater in private than in...

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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

In this paper I examine the evolution of labor relations institutions during the initial phase of marketization in Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market economy. I find surprising stability in labor institutions...

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