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 …

economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers …

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 …

firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

unionization rate, RTW can be used as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of unions on wages. In our … preferred specification based on the differential exposure design, the IV estimate of the effect of unions on wages is 0 …

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 …

-employee data from Brazil and job moves across multi-firm unions, we estimate over 4,800 union-specific pay premia. Unions explain 3 …-4% of earnings variation. While unions raise wages on average, the standard deviation in union effects is large (6 …. Linking premia to detailed data on union attributes, we find that unions with strike activity, collective bargaining …