The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymized version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and if political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In general, the...

How artificial intelligence (AI) will impact workplaces is a central question for the future of work, with potentially significant implications for jobs, productivity, and worker well-being. Yet, knowledge gaps remain in terms of how firms, workers, and worker representatives are adapting. This...

New OECD surveys of employers and workers in the manufacturing and finance sectors of seven countries shed new light on the impact that Artificial Intelligence has on the workplace —an under-researched area to date due to lack of data. The findings suggest that both workers and their employers...

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions...

We study a labor market where firm have private information about their ex-ante heterogeneous productivities and search is random. In this environment, a binding minimum wage can be efficiency-enhancing -- we show that setting it using a version of the Vickery-Clarke-Groves mechanism delivers...

This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional – on technology – wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe....

Unedited "transcript" of conversation among three union representatives, C, or "cooperationist", A, or "adversarialist" and S, or "stay the course". A wide-ranging conversation over the future of labor unions in the U.S. private sector. Topics include trade and employee involvement, contingent...

Three key ideas about how unions should best respond to declining union membership have become gospel in the United States labor community. First, unions should avoid the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), because it is hostile to worker rights. Second, the biggest problem facing unions is...

In this paper, we demonstrate that the court-developed doctrine which allows an employer to implement its final offer upon reaching an impasse has now become a tool for lawlessness and that this important explanation for the decline of union membership in the United States has been wrongly...