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

rate, and appears to be untrended in both countries. Union wages are sticky. c) The size of the wage gap varies across …

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 …

unionization as the threat measure, imply very little relationship between either nonunion wages or the union wage gap and the … threat. The estimates that rely on the introduction of RTW laws show a significant relationship between nonunion wages and …

. The value of nonemployment is therefore a key determinant of wages. We measure the wage effect of changes in the value of … large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …

in wages are explained by movements in lagged levels of profitability and unemployment. The results appear to be …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …

's assumption that wage bargainers are influenced by relative money wages rather than relative real wages. In Taylor's model money … that wage bargainers are influenced by relative real wages, which we consider somewhat more plausible, has some interesting …

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 …