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 …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …

both genders. This supports the argument that large nonunion firms pay higher wages to discourage the entrance of unions (i … components of the compensation structure, unions should not treat both genders similarly with respect to wages and benefits … male and female workers in medium/larger establishments receive not only higher wages but also have a higher probability of …

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 …

wages began falling relative to what would have been predicted based on patterns of bargaining in earlier years. In Canada …, real wages in the 1980s were significantlyhigher than they would have been if the previous patterns of wage determination … had persisted. Both the nominal and real wage change results suggest that unions in U.S. manufacturing fared poorly in …

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 …

Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general … indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are …-being across countries. -- Trade unions ; union density ; relative wage effect of unionism ; union objectives …

principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …