empirical analysis further suggests that, on net, unions have an equalizing effect on the distribution of wages. …

responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their …

responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their …

demand. Thus, the bargaining power of unions is related to the capital-labour ratio. This paper provides some tests for these …

employer-employee data set to study the effects of firm-level contracting on the structure of wages. Employees covered by firm … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have … small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime …

setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in … influence worker outcomes, whether unions influence workers differently across their careers, and what the overall long …