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Undermining or Promoting Democratic Government? An Economic and Empirical Analysis of the Two Views of Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Khan, Mohammad - 2014
There are two divergent views on the role of public sector collective bargaining in American law. The first, and generally older, view is that public sector collective bargaining undermines democratic government, allowing organized employees to interfere with the administration of the law for...
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Is the Pay of Medical Specialists in New Zealand Gender Biased?
Sin, Isabelle; Bruce-Brand, Bronwyn - 2022
We use individual-level data from the 2013 New Zealand Census combined with administrative income data from the tax system to estimate the gender gap in hourly pay for the population of medical specialists employed in the New Zealand public health system. Unionisation of these doctors is 90...
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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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Heterogeneous impacts of the decentralization of collective bargaining
Kauhanen, Antti; Maczulskij, Terhi; Riukula, Krista - 2020
This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage …-collar employees. Decentralization also affects the incidence of wage in-creases differently for blue- and white-collar employees. We … in local negotiations affects the decentralization outcomes. …
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Heterogeneous impacts of the decentralization of collective bargaining
Kauhanen, Antti; Maczulskij, Terhi; Riukula, Krista - 2020
This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage …-collar employees. Decentralization also affects the incidence of wage increases differently for blue- and white-collar employees. We … in local negotiations affects the decentralization outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315556
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The effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on wages and wage dispersion : evidence from the Finnish forest and IT industries
Kauhanen, Antti - 2023
synthetic difference-in-differences method, I study the causal effects of collective bargaining decentralization on the level … bargaining power locally, which limits the scope of changes due to bargaining decentralization. It should also be noted that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286166
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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984524
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Understanding the public sector pay gap
Campos, Maria M.; Depalo, Domenico; Papapetrou, Evangelia; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 7, pp. 1-29
We uncover the short- and long-run structural determinants of the existing cross-country heterogeneity in public-private pay differentials for a broad set of OECD countries. We explore micro data (EU-SILC, 2004–2012) and macro data (1970–2014). Three results stand out. First, when looking at...
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Dark half: decentralized bargaining and well-being at work
Maczulskij, Terhi; Haapanen, Mika; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2021
separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual … employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects …. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or …
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Unions and collective bargaining in the wake of the Great Recession
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015
This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to provide summary estimates of the union wage...
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