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

opportunities for substituting wages for employment in response to a change in the slope of the employer's labor demand function …. Larger union locals place greater emphasis on wages versus employment than smaller union locals …

This study examines the effect of trade unionism on the dispersion of wages among male wage and salary workers in the … dominate the more widely studied impact of unionism on the dispersion of average wages across industries, so that on net …

Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …-to-job mobility is more common. A life-cycle theory of job shopping and accumulation of skills on the job highlights that a more fluid … comparable cross-country training data, finding support for the theory …

"comparability" process determining their wages …

. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …

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 …

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 …

-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …

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 …