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

Gosling, Amanda - 1994

extent the decline in unionization in Britain has contributed to the rise in earnings inequality of semi-skilled workers …-17% of the rise in earnings inequality over this time period. The importance of falling union activity (as measured by union … explain less than 10% of the inequality increase, whereas between 1984 and 1990 about one-quarter of the increase can be …

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The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment : Theory and Evidence from the US

Dickens, Richard - 1994

Recent work on the economic effects of minimum wages has stressed that the standard economic model, where increases in minimum wages depress employment, is not supported by the empirical findings in some labour markets. In this paper we present a theoretical framework which is general enough to...

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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Draca, Mirko - 2008

Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is much less evidence on their impact on firm performance. In this paper we consider a very under-studied area - the impact of minimum wages on firm...

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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change : International Evidence

Berman, Eli - 1997

Demand for less skilled workers decreased dramatically in the US and in other developed countries over the past two decades. We argue that pervasive skill-biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is the principal culprit. The pervasiveness of this...

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

Disney, Richard - 1994

The authors analyze establishment-level data from the three Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984 and 1990 to document and explain the sharp decline in unionization that occurred in Britain over the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1990 the proportion of British establishments which...

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Trade and Worker Deskilling

Costa, Rui - 2019

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...

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