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Barth, Erling - 2017

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 productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …

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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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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 agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...

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

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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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 to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Union Membership and Collective Bargaining : Trends and Determinants

Schnabel, Claus - 2020

This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and that collective bargaining has become more decentralized over the last decades. However, there is a considerable amount of variation across countries and between different...

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Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2016

This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy...

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages : Firm Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef - 2010

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To … endogeneity of input factors and training is applied. The productivity premium for a trained worker is estimated at 23%, while the …

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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation … unionisation yields a positive impact on regional productivity, exceeding the wage growth, partly due to the closure of less … productive firms, but also enhanced productivity of the survivors and new entrants …

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