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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949616
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447309
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Unemployment crises
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Zhang, Lu - 2014 - Last rev.: July 16, 2014
A search and matching model, when calibrated to the mean and volatility of unemployment in the postwar sample, can potentially explain the unemployment crisis in the Great Depression. The limited responses of wages from credible bargaining to labor market conditions, along with the congestion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411443
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825968
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip - 2010
This paper presents information on wage-bargaining institutions, collected for 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from the years 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy. The main findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137667
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip - 2010
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138137
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768345
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Unions, wages and hours
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
reflects unions' ability to tackle under-employment, such that union workers work closer to the hours they desire than their … non-union counterparts. The traditional focus on hourly wage differentials underplays the important role trade unions play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544749
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2021
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324749
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphné; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785540