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 …

sketched a ∪. A model of unions is developed to analyze these facts. There is a distribution of productivity across firms in …

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, results suggest RTW laws differentially affect benefits, proxied by …

lower than in multiissue bargaining. Furthermore, multi-issue bargaining induces unions to offer smaller payoff shares and …

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring … countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage … distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of …