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Call My Rep! How Unions Overcame the Free-Rider Problem

Murphy, Richard - 2017

This paper proposes an explanation of why union membership has been increasing in some occupations, despite the opportunity to freeride on traditional union benefits. I model membership as legal insurance whose demand increases with the perceived risk of allegations. Using media reports on...

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Trade and Unions : Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?

Capuano, Stella - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in …

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Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2018

This paper extends the Diamond (1980) model with labor unions to study optimal income taxation and to analyze whether … unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency costs of income redistribution, because unemployment benefits and income taxes …

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...

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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics : A Note

Dittrich, Marcus - 2010

overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions …

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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies

Forslund, Anders - 2013

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...

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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries

Egger, Hartmut - 2011

in the other country labor unions are active in a subset of industries. The differences in labor market institutions are …

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behavior will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut - 2010

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...

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