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In an industry characterised by the presence of network effects, this paper investigates a duopolistic game in which firms may choose whether to bargain over wages and employment with unions or to face a competitive labour market (i.e. without unions). If unions are sufficiently risk-averse, it...
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). This earnings advantage of union workers is known as the union wage premium. The premium differs by country, industry … empirical techniques are reviewed, and premium estimates by country/region are presented. An average union wage premium of 0 …
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of encompassing unions. This result holds for different ways of dividing the surplus within the union. The effects of … in heterogeneity does not affect the decision whether to form a union or not. This contrasts with the result in Jun (1989). …
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To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the … workers, but no effect on union membership. Our results question important theories of unionization and are relevant for …
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economies. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013 and 2015 surveys, this paper examines the union wage premium among … workers' wages are 9-22 per cent higher than those of non-union workers. The wage gain is substantially larger at the upper …
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regulation of the internal affairs of unions, and the rights of shareholders and union members in each of these two regulatory … comparisons fruitful, and proceeds to look at a variety of governance topics, including shareholder and union member rights to … nominate and elect board members or officers, and to bring shareholder or union member derivative suits against corporate or …
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Do workers’ unions promote gender equality? The scholarship in the past thirty years has increasingly questioned the ability of unions to give voice to the needs of all workers, including foreign workers, workers with disabilities, elderly workers, gay and lesbian workers, and women. This...
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The article tries to answer an old question of economic theory and institutional economics: How do trade unions fit into a market economy? Are they a constitutive element of the market order or: are they a source of irritation and disruption?
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The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...
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