, disincentives, and opportunities for employers, unions, and employees, and these affect the outcomes of the procedure. Empirical … conduct, enhances the effectiveness of union avoidance activities, and deters employee participation in the unionization …

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions secure elections in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments that experience an election, unions are more …

shortcomings. First, labor unions have historically opposed transparency. They are unlikely to welcome additional disclosure … conception of capture would include union hierarchs and their ideological allies who see unions as a staging area for the … free-riding that appears to overestimate the economic benefits that workers receive from unions. Lastly, Professor Bodie …

In this paper, we study the impact of labor unions on product quality failures. We use a product recall as our measure … close union losses. These results are amplified in non-right-to-work states, where unions have a relatively greater … out investments that potentially impact quality. We also find some suggestive evidence that unions may compromise quality …

model with integrated product markets, this paper investigates the incentives for unions to coordinate wage demands in the …

density would have fallen by 5 percentage points between 2001 and 2012. Since membership fees are a substantial part of unions …' total revenues the findings have important implications for unions' viability. They are also significant because union …

unions reduce the potency of the external threat of job loss (by making it more difficult for employers to dismiss workers …

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the … firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions push immigrants to enter lower-paying and lower-quality firms with …