between unions and employers …

This paper sets up a microeconomic theory of labor unions. It discusses their formation and goals, their hierarchical …

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

when conditioning on wages, both suggest the change is not associated with changes in unions' wage bargaining. Instead, we … find some diminution in unions' ability to lower quit rates - albeit confined to older workers - which is suggestive of a … of unions' ability to minimize covered workers' exposure to underemployment, a phenomenon that has negatively impacted …

unionization rate, RTW can be used as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of unions on wages. In our … preferred specification based on the differential exposure design, the IV estimate of the effect of unions on wages is 0 …

labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union …We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize …

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of … competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM …

innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition …