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Is the Union Employment Suppression Effect Diminishing? Further Evidence from Canada
Walsworth, Scott - 2013
more than twenty-five years ago. Noting this, Walsworth (2010a) utilized data from the Statistics Canada Workplace and … suppression effect in Canada. He found that, compared to Long's (1993) findings, the union employment suppression effect has … apparently diminished in Canada. However, we note that Walsworth's (2010a) analysis is not comparable to that conducted by Long …
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Do Unions Affect Pay Methods of Canadian Firms? A Longitudinal Study
Long, Richard J.; Shields, John - 2010
Drawing on two waves of survey data collected from 250 Canadian firms in 2000 and 2004, this study examines union influence on the mix of compensation methods used by employers. As expected, firms with more unionization devoted a larger proportion of total compensation to indirect pay (also...
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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics
Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024
This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...
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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312945
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135314
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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry : Union Power Under Product Market Constraints
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021
of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …
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Union wage effects : what are the economic implications of union wage bargaining for workers, firms, and society
Bryson, Alex - 2014
Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet...
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Foreign ownership and its effects on employment and wages : the case of Sweden
Brännlund, Runar; Nordström, Jonas; Stage, Jesper; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-17
In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects, we specify a model based on the assumption that the Swedish labour market can be described as one where trade unions and employers bargain over employment and wages. Our...
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The Endogeneity of Union Status : An Empirical Test
Duncan, Gregory M.; Leigh, Duane E. - 2005
An unsettled issue in the literature relating to the relative wage effect of unions is the appropriate treatment of union status in a wage determination model. In the context of a three-equation model determining union membership and union- and nonunion-sector wage rates, this paper presents an...
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Trade union strategies against precarious work : common trends and sectoral divergence in the EU
Keune, Maarten; Pedaci, Marcello - In: European journal of industrial relations 26 (2020) 2, pp. 139-155
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