globalization. Using this framework we discuss recent work on measuring the impact of various shocks firms face in the global …

We study a novel dataset compiled from archival records, which includes information on men's wages, union status …

bargaining coverage raises wages and employment for covered employees; (3) a more favorable legal environment increases wages for … permitted clauses - on wages and employment …

Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages … workers during strikes is associated with significantly higher wages, and more frequent and longer strikes. This is consistent …

paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is … located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …

-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …

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 …

reexamine the effects of trade unions both on relative wages and on relative man hours worked.Our estimates of the relative wage …