determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …

market size. The union sets wages in function of the firm level labour demand elasticity and the responsiveness of firms to … relocate internationally. If countries are suffciently symmetric lower foreign wages and lower trade costs necessarily lead to … countries it holds that small increases in market size or trade costs makes union wages more sensitive to the foreign wage level. …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …

empirical determinants of the reservation wage - in particular the inßuence of previous wages - and consider what this implies … for the evolution of the natural rate of unemployment. We Þnd that previous wages have a signiÞcant but relatively small … effect on reservation wages (an elasticity between 0.15 and 0.47). We also Þnd considerable differences across genders with …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …