unionization, though decreasing in the private sector, has been increasing among blacks. The role played by unions in mediating … affirmative action regulations is also examined. There are significant differences across particular unions, especially between … craft and industrial unions, within industries that correspond with each union's public record on EEO. Black employment …

The recent literature on the economic behavior of unions is dominated by a controversy over whether or not bargaining … is Pareto optimal. If unions care about employment as well as wages, efficient bargains between unions and management …

This paper re-examines the connection between unions and wage inequality, focusing on three questions: (1) How does the … unions on the variance of wages in the late 1980s is relatively modest. Nevertheless, changes in the level and pattern of … unionism--particularly the decline of unions among lower wage workers -- have been an important component of the growth in wage …

This paper presents an analytical framework that can be used to analyze the effects of unions on productivity in the …

unions on productivity is examined in the present paper using establishment level data from the U.S. cement industry. The …

pro-union attitudes that unions could potentially influence to maintain the union impact on elections even with declines …

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 profits, thus giving management a greater incentive to oppose unions. It shows …

We explore the various claims made by Freeman and Medoff (FM) in their famous book What do unions do? about the impact … of unions on wages and update them with new and better data. The main findings are as follows. 1) Private sector union …