unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …

This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the … of unions as alleviating market failures induced by imperfect competition. To validate our findings and examine …

the role of unions in shaping labor market wage inequality. …

Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower …

empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure …

inequality ; monopsony ; efficiency wage ; over-education …

empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure … support those assumptions for skilled pay and unskilled pay, but not for trainee pay. -- monopsony ; wage differentials ; firm …

empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure …

empirical studies provide direct evidence on this topic. In this article, the authors analyze the effect of monopsony power on … pay structure, using a direct measure of labor market thinness. The authors find evidence of monopsony power, as firms …

unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …