This paper argues that trade unions have a number of distinct and possibly conflicting effects on wages. This contrasts … variables on wages. …

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … working similar jobs. At the same time, wages are higher in firms under collective bargaining, even in similar firms in the …

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had … its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers … in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet unions often work in tandem with employers for mutual gain based on …

the labour union behaviour in the wage bargaining process as such an alternative. The explanation is based on the … demand. Thus, the bargaining power of unions is related to the capital-labour ratio. This paper provides some tests for these … hypotheses with panel data for Finnish companies. The results give support to the wage bargaining hypothesis. …

This paper focuses on the relationship between higher wages and capital intensity. The relationship itself is by no … on its exact nature. Our explanation is the outcome of the wage bargaining process in the case of capital … easily give in for union wage demand. In other words, the bargaining power of unions is related to the capital-labor ratio …

In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership … status, but by the bargaining regime. Four bargaining regimes can be distinguished: (i) company level bargaining, (ii …) industry level bargaining, (iii) mandatory extension of an industry agreement, and (iv) no collective bargaining. Acknowledging …

Two-tier bargaining structures, in which plant-level wage negotiations supplement industry-level wage setting, are … of firms to collective bargaining, and do not seem to improve either microeconomic and macroeconomic adjustment to shocks. …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an …-samples, comprising collective bargaining joiners and never members on the one hand and collective bargaining leavers and always members … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

establishments covered by collective bargaining. The model predicts that works councils should have a stronger productivity effect … model takes into account that collective bargaining coverage not only limits the opportunities for rent-seeking activities … councils. The latter influence of collective bargaining coverage can result in a higher wage effect of works councils in …