This paper studies the relationship between union power, unemployment and wages. We find many theoretically well …-established links suggesting that unemployment negatively affects bargaining power. As an empirical strategy we use Austrian data from … unemployment. Moreover, it allows for further discussion on the potential influence of other macroeconomic and institutional …

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …