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Pencavel, John H. - 2021

productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990 …

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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James R. - 2021

import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that …

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Effect of International Competition on Firm Productivity and Market Power

De Loecker, Jan - 2016

We propose a framework to evaluate the potential impact of international competition on firm performance and highlight two points. First, it is important to consider effects on productive efficiency and market power in an integrated framework. The popular concept of (revenue) TFP combines both...

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Unionization and Firm Performance : The Impact on Profits, Growth and Productivity

Clark, Kim B. - 2021

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …

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Standard-Rate Wage Setting, Labor Quality, and Unions

Brown, Charles - 2021

"Standard rate" wage policies, under which all workers in a particular job receive the same wage, are common for blue-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and those who work for large employers.This paper analyzes the impact of standard-rate wage...

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Union Wage Settlements During a Disinflation

Taylor, John B. - 2021

This paper examines the role of union wage contracts in the persistence of inflation, and the implication of these contracts for the problem of disinflation in the United States. A quantitative model of overlapping con- tracts explicitly oriented toward the major union sector is developed. The...

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Propping Up the Wage Floor : Collective Labor Supply Without Unions

Breza, Emily - 2019

Social norms have the potential to alter the functioning of economic markets. We test whether norms shape the aggregate labor supply curve by leading decentralized individuals to maintain wage floors in their local labor markets. We partner with existing employers who create new jobs for workers...

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A Biological Model of Unions

Kremer, Michael; Olken, Benjamin A. - 2022

This paper applies principles from evolutionary biology to the study of unions. We show that unions which maximize the present discounted wages of current members will be displaced in evolutionary competition by unions with more moderate wage policies that allow their firms to live longer. This...

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From the Invisible Handshake to the Invisible Hand? How Import Competition Changes the Employment Relationship

Bertrand, Marianne - 2021

There is a popular perception that increased competitive pressures in U.S. product markets are turning the employment relationship from one governed by implicit agreements into one governed by the market. In this paper, I examine whether changes in import competition indeed affect the use of...

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John E.; Lee, David S. - 2021

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages …

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