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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States

Gittleman, Maury; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008. Our analysis examines the impact of unions and licensing coverage on …

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Mining Surplus: Modeling James A. Schmitz's Link Between Competition and Productivity

Greenwood, Jeremy; Weiss, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

not competitive. Surplus in profits was divided between business and unions. Schmitz attributes the increase in …

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Who do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Greenwood, Jeremy; Dinlersoz, Emin; Hyatt, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions organizing occurs in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments targeted for organizing, unions are more …

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Unions in a Frictional Labor Market

Krusell, Per; Rudanko, Leena - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We analyze a labor market with search and matching frictions where wage setting is controlled by a monopoly union. We take a benevolent view of the union, assuming it to care equally about employed and unemployed workers, to treat identical workers in identical jobs the same, as well as to be...

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Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States

Hines, James R. Hines, Jr.; Felix, R. Alison - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

unions are paid more than their non-union counterparts, and this difference is greater in low-tax locations, reflecting that … unions and employers share tax savings associated with low tax rates. In 2000 the difference between average union and non …

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The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality

Lemieux, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The paper reviews recent developments in the literature on wage inequality, with a particular focus on why inequality growth has been particularly concentrated in the top end of the wage distribution over the last 15 years. Several possible institutional and demand-side explanations are...

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Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publicly Induced Retirement?

Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

It has long been suggested that trade unions take actions and favor public policies that reduce the quantity of labor …

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Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999

Lee, David; Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate the effect of new unionization on firms' equity value over the 1961-1999 period using a newly assembled sample of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representation elections matched to stock market data. Event-study estimates show an average union effect on the equity value of the...

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Union Success in Representation Elections: Why Does Unit Size Matter?

Farber, Henry S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

the entire period; 3) it has always been the case that unions have been less likely to win NLRB-supervised representation …

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