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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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Collective bargaining for women : how unions can create female-friendly jobs
Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...
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Union wage effect : evidence from Ghana
Owusu-Afriyie, John; Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16
Consistent with Convention 87 of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Section 79 of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) empowers every employee in an organization to either form or join a trade union of their choice for the promotion and protection of their economic and social interests. In...
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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Pencavel, John H. - 2020
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased,...
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Wage differentials, bargaining protocols, and trade unionism in mid-twentieth century American labor markets
Pencavel, John H. - 2020
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206420
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Gender differences in the union wage premium? : a comparative case study
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Nergaard, Kristine - 2016
using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys for Norway and Britain we examine whether, in keeping with … bargaining power of their union as indicated by workplace union density. In Norway, on the other hand, although a union wage … their more progressive counterparts in Norway. …
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The microeconomic impacts of employee representatives : evidence from membership thresholds
Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
Employee representatives in firms are a potentially key but not yet studied source of the impact of unions and works councils. Their actions can shape multiple drivers of firm performance, including collective bargaining, strikes, and training. This paper examines the impact of union rep...
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Unions and collective bargaining : the influence on wages, employment and firm survival
Brändle, Tobias - 2024
Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and firm survival, especially in industrialised countries, and where they are traditionally strong. Their impact depends on the institutional role unions (can) play in different...
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Negotiating wage (in)equality : changing union strategies in high-wage and low-wage sectors in Czechia and Slovakia
Martišková, Monika; Kahancová, Marta; Kostolný, Jakub - In: Transfer : the European review of labour and research ; … 27 (2021) 1, pp. 75-96
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Assessing the impact of wage bargaining and worker preferences on the gender pay gap in Ireland using the national employment survey 2003
McGuinness, Séamus; Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2009
This paper assesses the magnitude and nature of the gender pay gap in Ireland using the National Employment Survey 2003, an employeremployee matched dataset. The results suggest that while a wage bargaining system centred around social partnership was of benefit to females irrespective of their...
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