The theoretical and empirical literature shows that union wages are more responsive to international import competition … Brazil before and after the trade liberalization in the beginning of the 1990s. We find that union bargaining power increased …

This paper merges a cost-based model of union bargaining power, in which bargaining power reflects relative costs of … positively to the real wage. Union bargaining alters the effort/wage relationship to increase the wage for a given level of … effort. The model predicts that employment decline or rising import penetration in unionized industries will diminish union …

of encompassing unions. This result holds for different ways of dividing the surplus within the union. The effects of … in heterogeneity does not affect the decision whether to form a union or not. This contrasts with the result in Jun (1989). …

The purpose of this paper is to quantify, as best as possible, the union wage effect achieved by the teachers' unions …. Consequently, a wage regression cannot separately identify the union wage effect from a state-wide compensating differential … to place a lower bound on the union rent paid by each district. …

Unionized employers may have an incentive to worsen the quality of working conditions in reaction to union …-appropriated monopoly wage rents. Indeed, this is a plausible explanation for why union workers are found to have higher injury rates than …

relative bargaining power of management. After controlling for other factors which influence union wages, the resulting … estimates indicate that union wage growth rates, average wages, and total union wage payments were significantly retarded by a …

. Integrating two initially separate markets is shown to decrease union set wages, but is never the less beneficial to firms of both …

In this paper, a lobby group or union may influence public policy because it is able, via a costly signal such as a …