In this paper, we study the impact of labor unions on product quality failures. We use a product recall as our measure of quality failure because it is an objective metric that is applicable to a broad cross-section of industries. Our analysis employs a union panel setting and close union...

Trade unions sponsored the political campaigns of candidates running for office in many countries throughout the 20th century. Yet little is known about the electoral consequences of these sponsorship arrangements. I study how union sponsorship affected the electoral performance of parliamentary...

A growing number of corporations and politicians have acknowledged the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Recent legislation proposes that corporations may become more stakeholder-focused if employees are given more power. We examine the impact of employee labor unions on...

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,...

This paper examines the impact of labor unions on firms' quality provisions through the lens of the U.S. airline industry. Leveraging quarterly carrier-route level data on flight frequencies and on-time performance from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from 1993 to 2019, our...

Unions play a significant role in the U.S. public sector. We use a difference-in-differences design and the exogenous shock induced by the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling to investigate how public sector unions affect government financing costs, as this ruling diminished the power of public...

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their members, even after controlling for individual, job, firm, and other characteristics that affect pay (Fang and Verma 2002). This earnings advantage of union workers is known as the...

In the years since Enron, there has been a lively debate over the value of shareholder democracy as a means to improve corporate performance and reduce the likelihood of future Enrons or Lehman Brothers. That debate has been enriched by comparative scholarship looking at corporate governance...

We examine the causal effect of unionization on firm innovation. To establish causality, we use a regression discontinuity design relying on “locally” exogenous variation generated by elections that pass or fail by a small margin of votes. Passing a union election leads to an 8.7% (12.5%)...

In this Article, the authors explore – through a survey of collective agreements, case law, unions’ constitutions and websites – how trade unions in Canada and Israel balance and effectively support the interests of older and young workers. While unions in both countries promote age...