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What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions secure elections in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments that experience an election, unions are more …
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What type of businesses attract unions? A theory of union learning and organizing is developed to provide an answer to …
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What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions secure elections in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments that experience an election, unions are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions target larger and more productive … establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments targeted, unions are more likely to win elections in smaller …
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It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long … environment will lead unions not only to contest fewer elections but also to focus on larger potential bargaining units and on …
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In this article, I argue that a more useful and general theory about the fate of American cities in the last half of the 20th century must begin with a discussion of the treatment of capital and the security of property rights within their borders. In particular, I will focus on the powerful...
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This paper uses state fixed effect models and a Synthetic Control design with Current Population Survey (CPS) data to identify the impact of state Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on wages, benefits, and union status among private and public sector workers. Despite a modest effect of RTW laws on wages,...
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favourably by workers. It also finds that unions appear to have positive implications for authority relations at work, as …
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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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might expect American and Japanese unions to fare in their negotiations with management in the new economic environment …
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