Search Results - subject:"Union Objectives"

The union wage mark-up for immigrants in the United States

Goerke, Laszlo; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2025

be due to disparities in bargaining power or result from discriminatory trade union objectives. Our findings point to the …

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How successful have trade unions been? A utility-based indicator of union well-being

Pencavel, John H. - 2008

Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or...

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How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being

Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Classification: J51 Keywords: trade unions, union density, relative wage effect of unionism, union objectives Corresponding … way in which these two dimensions are combined depends on the particular expression of union objectives. Two classes of … set of workers, perhaps nonunion workers. 2. A Particular Expression for Union Objectives: the Stone-Geary One …

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Kinky perceived demand curves and Keynes-Negishi equilibria

Jacques H., DREZE; Jean-Jacques, HERINGS - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007

The label “Keynes-Negishi equiibria” is attached here to equilibria in a monetary economy with imperfectly competitive product and labor markets where business firms and labor unions hold demand perceptions with kinks - as posited in Negishi’s 1979 book Microeconomic Foundations of...

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Kinky perceived demand curves and Keynes-Negishi equilibria

DREZE, Jacques H.; HERINGS, P. Jean-Jacques - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

The label "Keynes-Negishi equilibria" is attached here to equilibria in a monetary economy with imperfectly competitive product and labor markets where business firms and labor unions hold demand perceptions with kinks - as posited in Negishi's 1979 book Microeconomic Foundations of Keynesian...

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The Dilemma of Labor Unions: Local Objectives vs. Global Bargaining

Eckel, Carsten; Egger, Hartmut - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Multinational enterprises are able to improve their disagreement profits by setting up foreign production facilities, with adverse consequences for negotiated wages and union utilities. In this paper, we take a new angle at this issue and analyze whether unions can improve their situation by...

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Union objectives and indexation externalities in a monopolistically competitive economy

James, Jonathan G.; Lawler, Phillip - In: Research in Economics 64 (2010) 1, pp. 28-35

unionized economy characterized by a monopolistically competitive goods market. The assumption that union objectives relate to …

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Trade Unions and Protection of Workers’ Interest

Camusso, Susanna - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 3

If the Italian trade union movement, and in particular the Cgil, has avoided a corporative drift, it is largely due to its general representativeness. Between diffi culties and contradictions, its ability to represent general interests, while seeking mediation among them, has represented a...

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Influences on trade union organising effectiveness in Great Britain

Charlwood, Andy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper brings together data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, National Survey of Unions and TUC focus on recognition survey to investigate influences on union organising effectiveness. Organising effectiveness is defined as the ability of trade unions to recruit and retain...

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Influences on Trade Union Organising Effectiveness in Great Britain

Charlwood, A - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

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