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Collective Bargaining for Women : How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor … limiting the unions' power such as a strong exposure to international markets, high debt levels or the prevalence of flexible … on efficiency is positive and partially compensates the negative unions' effect. The results are robust to the inclusion …

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...

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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets

Pencavel, John H. - 2020

Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased,...

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Union Density, Productivity and Wages

Barth, Erling - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...

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Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2023

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2014

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled...

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Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2022

While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage, the overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the membership in employers' associations and the coverage...

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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2016

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...

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Understanding Wage Floor Setting in Industry-Level Agreements : Evidence from France

Fougère, Denis - 2016

This paper examines empirically how industry-level wage floors are set in French industry-level wage agreements and how the national minimum wage (NMW) interacts with industry-level wage bargaining. For this, the authors use a unique dataset containing about 50,000 occupation-specific wage...

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