determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

, raising wages and benefits at the expense of consumers and taxpayers and imposing inefficient and inflexible work rules … analysis. One of the points of public sector unions is to raise employee wages and benefits over what they would have been in … do they promote comparable wages that attract good public servants and long-run administrative interests rather than …

In many countries, the minimum wages and working conditions set in collective bargaining contracts negotiated by a …

works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

earnings function ; wages …

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …

, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …