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Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining

Johnson, George - 2021

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 …

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Unions and Equal Employment Opportunity

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021

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 …

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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union

Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021

This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the 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...

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The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off at Low Inflation

Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2010

Wage setters take into account the future consequences of their current wage choices in the presence of downward nominal wage rigidities. Several interesting implications arise. First, a closed-form solution for a long-run Phillips curve relates average unemployment to average wage inflation;...

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Wage and Labor Mobility in Denmark, 1980-2000

Eriksson, Tor - 2010

This paper consists of three parts. First, we briefly describe some key features of the labor market in Denmark, some of which contribute to the Danish labor markets behaving quite differently from those in many other European countries. The next two parts exploit detailed linked...

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Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

Gertler, Mark - 2010

A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and Pissarides has difficulty accounting for the relatively volatile behavior of labor market activity over the business cycle. We address this issue by modifying the MP framework...

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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael - 2018

Teacher collective bargaining is a highly debated feature of the education system in the US. This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining laws on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes, exploiting the timing of passage of duty-tobargain...

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The Evolution of Public Sector Bargaining Laws

Farber, Henry S. - 2007

In 1955 only a few states had laws governing collective bargaining by public employees. By 1984 only a few states were without such laws. The emergence of these policies coincides with a dramatic increase in unionization among public employees, and an important puzzle is the direction of...

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Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance

Mas, Alexandre - 2006

for police unions provides a unique opportunity to examine these theories, as the police officers either receive their …

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Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility : International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages within and Across Firms

Lazear, Edward P. - 2008

The returns to talent or performance have grown over time in developed countries. Is talent concentrated in a few firms or are firms virtual microcosms of the economy, each having close to identical distributions of talent?The data show that talent is not concentrated in a few companies, but is...

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