Employers and employer groups often argue that restrictions on an employer's ability to use replacement workers during a strike reduce employment. This study analyzes the effect of Canadian provincial strike replacement legislation on employment using province-level aggregate data for 1966-94...

Using Current Population Survey data for 1983 to 1993, this paper analyzes whether there is a union membership wage premium among full-time, private sector employees covered by union contracts. OLS estimates of the membership wage premium are 12-14 percent, and allowing membership to be...

Employers and employer groups often argue that restrictions on an employer's ability to use replacement workers during a strike reduce employment. This study analyzes the effect of Canadian provincial strike replacement legislation on employment using province-level aggregate data for 1966-94...

Using Current Population Survey data for 1983 to 1993, this paper analyzes whether there is a union membership wage premium among full-time, private sector employees covered by union contracts. OLS estimates of the membership wage premium are 12 - 14 percent, and allowing membership to be...

The effects of laws banning the use of strike replacements has been theoretically modeled using private information bargaining models. These models predict that strike replacement restrictions will increase wages, but assume that the capital stock is constant. This article develops a sequential...

The effect of strike replacement, or striker replacement, bans has been theoretically modeled using private information bargaining models which predict that strike replacement restrictions will increase wages. These models, however, assume that the capital stock is constant. This paper develops...

Using Current Population Survey data supplemented with secondary data sources, this paper analyzes changes in the wage distribution in the U.S. grocery stores industry between 1984 and 1994. In contrast with other industries in which wage inequality has increased, the important change in the...

This paper analyzes youth-adult unionization differences by uniquely using the NLSY79 to follow a single group of individuals from age 15/16 to 40/41. Youth-adult differences are shown to be largest for individuals aged 15-17, and largely disappear by age 23. Research shows that workers are most...

Debates over revitalizing the U.S. labor movement often overlook when workers are first unionized. This paper tracks a cohort of individuals from age 15/16 to 40/41 to analyze the frequency and nature of workers' first unionized jobs. It is well-established that workers are most likely to be...

At any given time, workers can be currently-unionized, formerly-unionized, or never-unionized. Research frequently focuses on the currently-unionized, but using 21 waves of NLSY79 data to track individuals starting at age 15 and 16, this paper shows that half of U.S. workers who are 40 or 41...