estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …

estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …

Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this … firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing), there is excessive entry into such oligopoly. If trade unions …

institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … mechanism in two steps. First, we show that union presence—proxied by the number of workers directly employed by unions, by … parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of these …