, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …

effect of unions on employment growth. Following on a recent study of AWIRS (Wooden and Hawke, 2000), we reexamine the issue …

product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … attract and retain qualified employees throughout the industry. Because unions retain bargaining power at the major carriers …

of the system of industrial relations, Italian unions may contribute to inequality reduction through either national …

preference for wages relative to employment. Trade liberalisation then leads to more wage discipline by forcing unions to set …

estimate the effects of unions on risk adjusted returns and find that the union effect on performance varies in ways that are … consistent with our priors. In particular, unions have the largest negative effect among multi-employer defined contribution … plans and the negative effect of unions can be eliminated by a switch to participant direction. Also, we find that unions …

coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with wages, productivity, profitability, investment, debt, employment growth …, and business failures are all relevant in assessing the future of unions and public policy with respect to unions. A …

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly … unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

payments and examine the impact of unions on these choices. To do so, we use a search and matching model with risk averse … the job finding rate. Unions opt for higher levels of severance pay given that their higher wage demands imply reduced job …