The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … attract and retain qualified employees throughout the industry. Because unions retain bargaining power at the major carriers …

markets, particularly those in which unions are active. We investigate this idea empirically using a cross-section of UK … manufacturing establishments from the 1990 WIRS data set. A reduction in non-tariff barriers from high to medium leads to lower … wages, particularly for unskilled workers. Further reductions in non-tariff barriers produce a less well-determined effect …

pay gap. Among them are skill supply and demand, unions, and minimum wages, which influence the economywide wage returns …

probably no, at least with respect to labour actors (unions), which face several problems. There are thousands of unions in … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. …

preference for wages relative to employment. Trade liberalisation then leads to more wage discipline by forcing unions to set …We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using … sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as …

overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions. …

: (1) “Decentralization” where wages are determined independently at the firm-level, (2) “coordination” where an industry … union sets individual wages for all firms at the firmlevel, and (3) “centralization” where a uniform wage rate is set for … unionization structures or by imposing non-discrimination rules on monopoly unions. …

coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with wages, productivity, profitability, investment, debt, employment growth …, and business failures are all relevant in assessing the future of unions and public policy with respect to unions. A …

Works councils, trade unions, employers and employers' associations, as well as state bodies are among the central …