literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

the trend towards a more decentralized wage determination. The shift towards decentralized wage bargaining has coincided …

bargaining coverage raises wages and employment for covered employees; (3) a more favorable legal environment increases wages for …This paper examines the effect of the different legal environments for bargaining faced by public employees across the … states on wage and employment outcomes for union and nonunion employees, and also on the extent of bargaining, using cross …

. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through … individual determination. Dispersion of wages between organized plants is reduced compared to dispersion of wages between … dispersion of wages within firms and in the economy as a whole …

-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and those who work for large employers.This paper … distributions of alternative wages for workers, it pushes employers toward the middle of the quality distribution. Second, union … standard-rate policies allow union?ununion differences in wages for workers of a given qualityto exist even when union …

which wages are not contingent on firm size but more productive employers always pay higher wages. Although the state space …

This paper considers a model where individual workers bargain with firms over their wages and where their bargaining … individual firms raises employment (as in the case where the labor market clears) but that wages rise only modestly. In fact …, consistent with the findings of Wilson (1997), some job-specific wages actually fall. Nonetheless, average wages may rise either …

This paper analyses the relation between the percent of workers organized in a product market and the wages received by … coverage and wages using information on individuals and on establishments shows the expected positive relation for union … workers across manufacturing industries. By contrast, nonunion wages in manufacturing appear to be unrelated or only modestly …

In many European countries sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry … to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. We estimate a series of wage determination … models, including specifications that control for individual characteristics, co-worker characteristics, the bargaining …