bargaining as they are faced by reduced rent seeking activities of trade unions. Thus productive firms tend to benefit rather …

for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a detailed Fairlie …

. The articles in this forum re-examine unions and global workers organizing in seven countries to move us past the limited … focus on collective bargaining, contracts, labor law, and unions tied to neoliberal political parties to identify and assess …

with the presence of unions. The estimates also suggest that in unionised firms, workers have more access to returns from … might increase the number of firms adopting PRP. In addition, the presence of unions may discourage the diffusion of … “cosmetic” schemes that are adopted merely to secure benefits for the firm. Unions may also increase the returns of training and …

relations until the passage of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act in 1935, when company unions were outlawed. The ongoing … decline of unions and collective bargaining has prompted academic speculation that a return to internal workplace committees … on company unions as a component of his economic agenda. Company unions provided a voice for a firm’s workers, but Wagner …

sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in a unionised oligopoly framework. The model distinguishes …Summary This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry … centralised and decentralised wage determination. The theoretical results predict wages to be negatively associated with the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of performance-related pay (PRP) on productivity and wages … wages, also controlling for an ample set of covariates. The authors performed standard quantile regressions (QRs) to … investigate heterogeneity in associations of PRP with labour productivity and wages. In a second stage, the endogeneity of PRP was …

crisis. Contrary to the standard results of human capital theory, holistic firms are willing to invest in transferable human …

adjustment costs whilst the union, along with employment and wages, is also concerned with limiting the number of insiders fired …

will produce the disappearance of work is not sustained by empirical evidence. For this reason, trade unions have been … these dynamics. The following questions have been answered: How do trade unions and dockworkers respond to automation? What …