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This paper analyzes the effects of trade and labor market liberalization on wages and worker productivity/effort in a … domestic unionized firm with firm-union bargaining over wages and effort. It is shown that both types of liberalization will …
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To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...
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Industrial relations scholars have argued that east-west labour migration may benefit trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe. By focusing on the distributional aspect of wage policies adopted by two competing Romanian trade unions in the health care sector, this article challenges the...
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This paper evaluates the effect of U.S. state corporate income taxes on union wages. American workers who belong to …-union hourly wages was $1.88 greater in states with corporate tax rates below four percent than in states with tax rates of nine …
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This paper uses two complementary approaches to estimate the effect of right-to-work (RTW) laws on wages and … indicate that RTW laws lower wages and unionization rates. Under the assumption that RTW laws only affect wages by lowering the … unionization rate, RTW can be used as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of unions on wages. In our …
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