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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-Being

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Using data from the United States and Europe on nearly two million respondents we show the partial correlation between union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in the seminal work of Freeman (1978) and Borjas (1979)...

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Bankruptcy and the Cost of Organized Labor : Evidence from Union Elections

Campello, Murillo - 2017

, and costlier bankruptcy court proceedings. Unions further depress bondholders' recovery values as they are assigned seats …

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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union

Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021

This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the 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...

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Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This study uses establishment level data to examine the effect of unionism on the wage structure within establishments. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through explicit wage practices, such as single rate or automatic...

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The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Union Organizing

Ellwood, David T.; Fine, Glenn A. - 2021

In contrast to previous studies which have examined the impact of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on the level or stock of union membership, this paper examines their impact on the most updated flow into membership and the organizing of workers through certified elections. Since detailed annual data...

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Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining

Johnson, George E. - 2021

The recent literature on the economic behavior of unions is dominated by a controversy over whether or not bargaining … is Pareto optimal. If unions care about employment as well as wages, efficient bargains between unions and management …

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The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector : The Case of Libraries

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Schwarz, Joshua L. - 2021

This paper presents an analytical framework that can be used to analyze the effects of unions on productivity in the …

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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Disney, Richard; Gosling, Amanda; Machin, Stephen - 2021

1990 the proportion of British establishments which recognised manual or non-manual trade unions for collective bargaining … conjunction with recent changes in the nature of employment in the British labour market, seem to paint a bleak picture for unions …

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Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in British Establishments, 1980-90

Gosling, Amanda; Machin, Stephen - 2021

The relationship between unions and earnings dispersion is examined using establishment-level data from the 1980, 1984 … unions for collective bargaining purposes than in those that do not. All three surveys are then utilised to ascertain to what … between 1980 and 1990. For semi-skilled earnings, the decline in the share of plants with recognised unions can account for 11 …

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Trade Unions and Productivity : Some New Evidence on an Old Issue

Freeman, Richard B.; Medoff, James L. - 2021

were significantly more productive in 1965.The routes by which unions affect productivity have not yet been carefully …

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