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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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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 …
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Unions and the labor market for managers
DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000
firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333286
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Disability and the unionized workplace
Ameri, Mason; Ali, Mohammad; Schur, Lisa A.; Kruse, … - 2019
The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
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Imports as product and labor market discipline
Boulhol, Hervé (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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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...
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Slip sliding away : further union decline in Germany and Britain
Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2010
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a common model, we present decompositions of changes in collective bargaining and worker representation...
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Union decline in Britain
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
early 1980s across the whole private sector, whether the workplace is unionised or not. -- Trade unions ; wages ; employment …
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Imports as product and labour market discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377465
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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom...
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