find work, and prefer to do so even at wages below the prevailing wage rather than remain unemployed. However, they rarely …

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 …

excess supply. The net union premium was estimated by relating changes in wages to changes in union status of the same worker … measured by wages. This conclusion was less reliable for older workers. Subsequent analysis explores the effects of successful … whole tenure profile of wages. The explicit linking of wage levels to seniority reduces incentives for worker investment in …

distributions of alternative wages for workers, it pushes employers toward the middle of the quality distribution. Second, union … standard-rate policies allow union?ununion differences in wages for workers of a given qualityto exist even when union …

This paper analyses the relation between the percent of workers organized in a product market and the wages received by … coverage and wages using information on individuals and on establishments shows the expected positive relation for union … workers across manufacturing industries. By contrast, nonunion wages in manufacturing appear to be unrelated or only modestly …

"comparability" process determining their wages …

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 …