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Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander; … - 2023

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 …

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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

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Job satisfaction and trade union membership in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022

Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....

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Call me 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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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...

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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022

Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....

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Trade and unions : can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - 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; Jacobs, Bas - 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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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers

Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2021

This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the … of unions as alleviating market failures induced by imperfect competition. To validate our findings and examine …

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Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...

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