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 …

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 …

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 …