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Does a Specific Union Impact on Wage Increases? Evidence from Canada, 1985-2007

Roy-Cesar, Edison - 2010

The purpose of this note is to examine the effect of belonging to a specific union on negotiated wage increases, given unionisation status. The data consist of all collective agreements with more than 500 employees, which were signed in Quebec (N=632) or Ontario (N=1349) during the 1985-2007...

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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An...

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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment : The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Farber, Henry S. - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...

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Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth

Palokangas, Tapio - 2021

We present a growth model in which R&D increases productivity, union-firm bargaining determines the distribution of rents and the government can support unions by labour market regulation. We show that if unions are initially very strong, regulation increases only the workers' profit share and...

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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms' Production Factor Decisions

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2021

This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects of unions' demands on the firm's choice of factors of...

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Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Persyn, Damiaan - 2021

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics : A Note

Dittrich, Marcus - 2010

We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union models. Based on empirical findings we modify standard models and show that the well-known result that static models overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the...

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Organized labour and R&D : evidence from Italy

Cetrulo, Armanda; Cirillo, Valeria; Landini, Fabio - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of firm-level collective bargaining on firms' investment in intangible assets and, specifically R&D. While standard hold-up theories predict a negative effect of organized labour on intangible investments, the inclusion of pay-for-performance schemes in...

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Labor Unions and Product Quality Failures

Kini, Omesh; Shen, Mo; Shenoy, Jaideep; Subramaniam, Venkat - 2021

identification issues. In the panel regressions, we find that firms that are unionized and those that have higher unionization rates … influence on the workforce. We find that unionization increases firms’ costs and operating leverage and, consequently, crowds …

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Do unions shape political ideologies at work?

Matzat, Johannes; Schmeißer, Aiko - 2023

-unionizing management. In this paper, we analyze the workplace-level impact of unionization on workers' and managers' political campaign … with regression discontinuity tests and a novel instrumental variables approach, we find that unionization leads to a … leftward shift of campaign contributions. Unionization increases the support for Democrats relative to Republicans not only …

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