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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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Immigrating into a recession : evidence from family migrants to the U.S.
Barsbai, Toman; Steinmayr, Andreas; Winter, Christoph - 2022
We analyze how economic conditions at the time of arrival affect the economic integration of family-sponsored migrants in the U.S. Our identification strategy exploits long waiting times for family-sponsored immigration visas that decouple the migration decision from economic conditions at the...
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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
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Real wages and the cycle : the view from the frequency domain
Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2001
In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and amplitudes. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we employ frequency domain methods that allow us...
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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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The production and stock of college graduates for U.S. States
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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Wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor force
Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William S. - 2009
Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....
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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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Unions, wage gaps, and wage dispersion : new evidence from the Americas
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012
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...
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