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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …
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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 the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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This study examines the effect of unions on job security in the public and private sectors. Despite much lower unemployment rates for public than private sector workers, once one controls for differences in worker and job characteristics, the odds of being unemployed are identical for nonunion...
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or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document …
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A common claim in debates about globalization is that economic integration increases worker insecurity. Although this idea is central to both political and academic debates about international economic integration, the theoretical basis of the claim is often not clear. There is also no empirical...
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This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly …. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a modest effect on wages in the newly organized plants, which … Current Population Survey and related data tapes. Second, in contrast co its modest impact on wages, new unionization …
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reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …
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find work, and prefer to do so even at wages below the prevailing wage rather than remain unemployed. However, they rarely …
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. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …
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"comparability" process determining their wages …
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