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Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionisation: Are American, British, and Canadian Workers All That Different?
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley; Meltz, Noah - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper examines demand for union membership amongst young workers in Britain, Canada and the United States. The paper benchmarks youth demands for collective representation against those of adult workers and finds that a large and significant representation gap exists in all three countries....
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Rent-sharing : Does the Bargaining Regime Make a Difference? Theory and Empirical Evidence
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2005
This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Particular emphasis lies on the question of whether the extent of rent-sharing varies across different systems of wage determination. Those may be categorised into sector-specific wage agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297424
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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2005
Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297502
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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2006
Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298014
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Firm Heterogeneity and Wages Under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-productivity Firms?
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009
firm heterogeneity under centralised wage-setting, as unions internalise negative externalities of a wage increase for low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298712
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Unions, growth and unemployment
Wapler, Rüdiger - 2001
We extend the standard quality-ladder model with heterogeneous workers by including efficiency wages and unions. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305028
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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
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
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Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation
Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the U.S. private sector since 2000. We distinguish between concentration in local labor markets versus local product markets, guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis...
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Revitalisierung der Tarifpolitik durch den gesetzlichen Mindestlohn?
Bosch, Gerhard; Weinkopf, Claudia - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 22 (2015) 3/4, pp. 305-324
Seit Januar 2015 gilt in Deutschland ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn von 8,50 € pro Stunde. Die Mindestlohneinführung ist Teil eines Gesetzes zur Stärkung der Tarifautonomie, das darauf abzielt, die Tarifbindung wieder zu erhöhen und Allgemeinverbindlicherklärungen zu erleichtern. In diesem...
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Disability and the Unionized Workplace
Ameri, Mason; Ali, Mohammad; Schur, Lisa; Kruse, Douglas L. - 2019
The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005959