This paper offers a critical evaluation of the notion of collective voice, advanced by Freeman and Medoff (1984) in … their pioneering contribution What Do Unions Do? It takes note of theoretical and empirical work supportive of …/consistent with the collective voice/institutional response model, and tracks some development of the model. Equally, although much …

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their … service industry, less favorable labor law, and possibly increased opposition toward unions. Methodological challenges and …

Trade unions tend to reduce the dispersion of wages among their members. Skilled workers may therefore have an … theoretical model to gain insight into the determinants of the number of trade unions at a firm. We show that imperfect …

better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents …, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade unions may find it optimal to accept lower wages to prevent firms from … cause and not the consequence of the high wage level in those firms. Even though we assume monopoly unions that ascribe the …