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State substitution for the trade union good : the case of paid holiday entitlements

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

holidays is substantially larger than the union premium on wages. However, the premium fell with the introduction of a …

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Trade union membership and paid vacation in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Pannenberg, Markus - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-26

In Germany, dependent employees take almost 30 days of paid vacation annually. We enquire whether an individual's trade … union membership affects the duration of vacation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period … day of vacation per year. Estimations exploiting the panel structure of our data suggest that a smaller part of this …

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Political spillovers of worker representation : with or without workplace democracy?

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025

A series of studies show that unions and works councils have an influence on workers' political activities and attitudes. However, at issue are the transmission channels through which worker representation impacts workers' political activities and attitudes. This article discusses from a...

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Political spillovers of worker representation: with or without workplace democracy?

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025

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Rebalancing unemployment benefits in a unionized labour market

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen - 1997

The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two benefit levels, one for short-term and one for long-term unemployed, and a rule determining whether an unemployed is short- or long-term. The purpose of this extension is...

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Union Bargaining Power and the Amenity-Wage Tradeoff

Lagos, Lorenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper studies how collective bargaining affects both wages and amenities. By merging collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) to linked employer-employee data in Brazil, I combine rich contracted amenities with wage information. I implement a difference-in-difference strategy that exploits a...

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Who Captures the Rents from Unionization? Insights from Multiemployer Pension Plans

Johnsen, D. Bruce - 2016

From 1945 to 2010 the proportion of private-sector workers covered by collective bargaining agreements declined from 36% to a once unthinkable 6.9%. This decline raises the question of how well labor unions serve their rank and file. This study addresses the economics of labor unions in an...

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Union bargaining power and the amenity-wage tradeoff

Lagos, Lorenzo - 2024

This paper studies the relation between the wage and amenity components of compensation under collective bargaining. Using the universe of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in Brazil, I augment information on workers' wages with the comprehensive set of amenities codified in the text of...

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Union Immunity from Suit in New York

Rubinstein, Mitchell H. - 2006

One of the best keep secrets in New York law is that most labor unions are immune from legal liability simply because they are organized as an unincorporated association. In jurisdictions such as New York, which follow common law, unions have this immunity because plaintiffs cannot met the...

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Regulating Unions and Collective Bargaining

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn - 2014

In this chapter, we present an outline of the economic analysis of the regulation of unions and collective bargaining. We begin with the simple model of the market for union services and analyze regulations that may increase or decrease either the demand or supply for union representation. In...

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