The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as well as the controversies surrounding the conclusions of … existing empirical research. Although it is difficult to draw firm and general conclusions on the effects of unions on firm …

probably no, at least with respect to labour actors (unions), which face several problems. There are thousands of unions in … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …

In this chapter, we present an outline of the economic analysis of the regulation of unions and collective bargaining … density in the economy. Next we present simple expositions of the primary models of the impact of unions on wages and …

model with integrated product markets, this paper investigates the incentives for unions to coordinate wage demands in the …