contributed to the divergence, with unions doing better in countries with high inflation. In addition, unemployment raised density … in settings where unions disperse unemployment benefits -- The primary reason for the divergence are differences in the … incentives and opportunities different industrial relations systems give employers to oppose unions. Unions fared best in neo …

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 …

directly from the behavior of unions, and suggest that behavioral and related policy analyses of pensions should be conducted …

. This paper considers whether part of this observed union/nonunion differential is due to unions organizing high paying …

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 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 …

This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability … effects of public sector unions on wages are likely to have been underestimated; (3) public sector unions have a somewhat … different effect on wage structures than do private sector unions; (4) compulsory arbitration reduces strikes with no clearcut …