Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had … its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers … productivity growth. If this is where the premium originates, then firms and workers benefit. Without unions bargaining …

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had … its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers … productivity growth. If this is where the premium originates, then firms and workers benefit. Without unions bargaining …

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had … its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers … productivity growth. If this is where the premium originates, then firms and workers benefit. Without unions bargaining …

wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … the theory with workplace data for Britain and Norway. Results are consistent with the theory: local union bargaining is … positively associated with product innovations in both countries. In Norway, local union bargaining is also positively associated …

financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain … and that this effect is larger when unionization is endogenized. In France, union bargaining is associated with poorer …

This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries … changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …