A labor market with search and matching frictions, where wage setting is controlled by a monopoly union that follows a … future wages, the union achieves efficient hiring in the long run, but hikes up wages in the short run to appropriate rents … quantitative impact is demonstrated in an extended model with partial union coverage and multi- period union contracting …

This paper investigates the correlates of union success in NLRB certification and decertification elections. The … analysis includes a wide variety of bargaining unit, union, industry, and geographic attributes, many of which have not been … the size of the unit, employer consent to the definition of the bargaining unit, the length of campaigns, union organizing …

unorganized plants, but by more modest amounts. Overall, the evidence suggests a major role for explicit union wage policies on …

changes in labor outcomes. Successor unions to the official trade unions remained on the union scene. Central government taxed …

determining union recognition status in new establishments. The sharp fall in trade union recognition appears to be largely driven … and there appears to be no reason why the decline in union activity should not continue into the 1990s …

In this paper we focus our attention on the question of whether union/nonunion differences in nonwage outcomes can, in … effects on diverse nonwage variables which cannot be explained either in terms of price-theoretic responses to union wage …

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 …