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Changes in the German Wage Structure : Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Biewen, Martin - 2017

German Structure of Earnings Surveys (GSES) which allow us to focus on hourly wages (rather than daily earnings) uncensored … results suggest that recent changes in the distribution of hourly wages in Germany look different from the polarizing patterns …

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The Sources of the Union Wage Gap : The Role of Worker, Firm, Match, and Job-title Heterogeneity

Addison, John T. - 2019

evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to …

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Disability and the Unionized Workplace

Ameri, Mason - 2019

The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions affect their employment experiences. To address this, we analyze monthly U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 2009 through 2017 and find that the unionization rate...

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Labor Unions and Corporate Financial Leverage : The Bargaining Device versus Crowding-out Hypotheses

Woods, Keegan - 2017

We examine the empirical relation between labor unions and firm indebtedness in the contemporary United States. Our identification strategy exploits two negative exogenous shocks in union power and the threat of unionization. Further, in the context of panel regressions, we develop a novel...

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Sources of the Union Wage Gap : Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap, the next stage of the analysis seeks to account for...

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Labor Unions and Strategic Corporate Governance : A Balancing Act of Managerial Power and Entrenchment

Woods, Keegan - 2018

This paper investigates the relation between unionization and corporate governance practices in the United States. For unionized firms to secure a bargaining advantage, we hypothesize that the managers of such firms will optimally adopt structures of governance that increase managerial power and...

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Do Unions Promote Gender Equality?

Lurie, Lilach - 2021

supplement” that is added to their monthly wages, increasing the gender wage-gap …

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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies

Forslund, Anders - 2013

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural … factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages … equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s …

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Unions, worker participation and worker well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Heywood, John S. - 2020

This chapter focuses on the lessons learned from four decades of studying the relationship between unions and job satisfaction. We discuss the original paradox that started the literature and trace the on-going debate over results that differ by sample and by estimation technique. We emphasize...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017

We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending … on wages. In turn, job titles reflect the average contract in the collective agreement, while the wage cushion offers …

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