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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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The Impacts Of U.S. Right To Work Laws On Wages, Free Riding, And Unionization
Bono-Lunn, Dillan - 2021
This paper uses state fixed effect models and a Synthetic Control design with Current Population Survey (CPS) data to identify the impact of state Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on wages, benefits, and union status among private and public sector workers. Despite a modest effect of RTW laws on wages,...
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The plant life-cycle of the average wage of employees in US manufacturing
Dinlersoz, Emin; Hyatt, Henry R.; Nguyen, Sang V. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The …
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The gloves-off economy : workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market
Bernhardt, Annette (contributor) - 2008 - 1. ed.
-- Working beyond the reach or grasp of employment law / Noah D. Zatz -- Putting wages back into competition : deunionization and … employment in the United States / Sarah Gammage -- Single mothers in the era of welfare reform / Elizabeth Lower-Basch and Mark H …. Greenberg -- The new challenge of employment in the era of criminal background checks / Maurice Emsellem and Debbie A. Mukamal …
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The labor market experience of workers with disabilities : the ADA and beyond
Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2003
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Employment and labor-relations policy
Bulmer, Charles (ed.); Carmichael, jr., John L. (contributor) - 1980
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Job Flows and Productivity Dynamics : Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
Wheeler, Christopher H. - 2015
employment primarily along a lowskill (or low 'match-quality') dimension. In such a case, job creation would serve to lower …) growth using annual data on 389 4-digit U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1974-1993. As expected, the results …
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Public Sector Labour Relations in the United States: Austerity, Politics and Policy
Mareschal, Patrice M. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 4, pp. 450-471
Public sector unions around the world are under threat from political forces. Combined, the financial crisis and austerity measures have challenged public sector unions’ legitimacy. In the U.S., the postrecession assault on public sector unions is rooted in political ideology, with not only a...
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The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age : A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Ellis, Benjamin - 2015
. Next, we discuss the impact of new information technology and the global economy on the employment relationship and how …
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Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle
Krueger, Alan B.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003
-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers …--especially female workers--into employment at a greater rate than most countries. The leading explanation for this phenomenon is that … the U.S. labor market has flexible wages and employment practices, whereas European labor markets are rigid. The second …
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