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Has Globalisation Really Had No Effect on Unions?

Gaston, Noel - 2006

For a number of OECD countries, the deterioration of labour market outcomes for less-skilled workers since the early 1980's has coincided with a steady decline in union membership. Globalisation is commonly believed to have contributed to both developments. However, recent studies fail to find...

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The Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws : Evidence from Collective Bargaining Agreements and Corporate Policies

Chava, Sudheer - 2019

We analyze the economic and financial impact of right-to-work (RTW) laws in the US. Using data from collective bargaining agreements, we show that there is a decrease in wages for unionized workers after RTW laws. Firms increase investment and employment but reduce financial leverage....

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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

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Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Barth, Erling - 2017

unionization. The wage effect is larger in more productive firms, consistent with rent-sharing models …

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The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain

Beynon, Huw - 2020

Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...

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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Bankruptcy and the Cost of Organized Labor : Evidence from Union Elections

Campello, Murillo - 2016

Arguments that worker unionization leads to changes in productivity, employment, or business survival find little … support in the literature. While unionization may have limited impact in good states, unionized workers are entitled to … decades and employ a regression discontinuity design to identify the effect of worker unionization on bondholders' wealth …

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What Businesses Attract Unions? Unionization over the Life‐Cycle of U.S. Establishments

Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016

What type of businesses attract unions? A theory of union learning and organizing is developed to provide an answer to this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize. An establishment becomes unionized if the...

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Unionization, Cash, and Leverage

Schmalz, Martin C. - 2016

What is the effect of unionization on corporate financial policies? The average unionized firm responds with lower cash … and higher leverage to a unionization election than the average firm escaping unionization. However, using a regression … discontinuity design I find that the causal effect of unionization is close to zero on average, but heterogeneous across firms. For …

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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? 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 establishment becomes...

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