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The Impact of New Unionization on Wages and Working Conditions : a Longitudinal Study of Establishments Under Nlrb Elections

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...

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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Karabay, Bilgehan - 2010

We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization …

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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Disney, Richard F.; Gosling, Amanda; Machin, Stephen J. - 2021

The authors analyze establishment-level data from the three Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984 and 1990 to document and explain the sharp decline in unionization that occurred in Britain over the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1990 the proportion of British establishments which...

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The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This paper argues that under current U.S. institutional arrangements, in which managements opposition to unions is as important as workers and unions,the magnitude of the union wage premium actually reduces organization rather than increasing it. It reduces organizing success by lowering...

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The Impact of Industrial Relations Legislation on British Union Density

Freeman, Richard B.; Pelletier, Jeffrey - 2021

The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s density rose steadily, making the United Kingdom the most heavily organized large OECD country. In the 1980s, by contrast, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a...

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Structural Changes in Unionization : 1973-1981

Dickens, William T.; Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021

This paper presents a decomposition of the decline in union density into structural and within sector components using CPS data for private sector workers. We find that 58 to 68 percent of the decline in private sector unionization between 1973 and 1981 can be accounted for by structural changes...

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2021

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations : Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2022

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires....

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay : Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2011

The absence of a competitive market may enable public-sector workers to extract rents from taxpayers in the form of high pay, especially when public-sector workers are unionized. On the other hand, this rent extraction may be suppressed by the ability of taxpayers to vote with their feet,...

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