Add to ORKGThis paper demonstrates that the decisions by workers of different skills to unite to form industry unions is closely linked to the egalitarian wage policies that such unions pursue. These results help interpret the stylized facts about unions: that they not only increase wages but also reduce wage inequality. I also demonstrate that political caps on collectively negotiated minimum wages may reduce the wages of all blue-collar workers (cf. “internal devaluation”), but that they may also cause unions to disintegrate in the long run.JEL: J31, J5
This paper argues that under current U.S. institutional arrangements, in which managements oppositio...
Trade unions have played a big part in providing equity for labor workers. In recent history, the Un...
The demand for higher union wages can be heard from migrant union workers in Florida to GM autoworke...
Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts h...
Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that labor unions,...
a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge Jim Alt and seminar participants...
The paper investigates the nexus between the structure of union wage bargaining and workers' prefere...
From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percen...
First paragraph: A recent book by two Harvard economists. Freeman and Medoff (1984) summarised the r...
Today economic inequality is greater in the United States than in any other advanced nation. Bringin...
We consider why blue collar workers are more likely to organize unions than white collar workers by ...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the unions' bargaining power on production and...
In this study, a compreensive analysis on the union wage gap is performed from the factors that infl...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127...
We know that unions promote economic equality and build worker power, helping workers to win increas...
This paper argues that under current U.S. institutional arrangements, in which managements oppositio...
Trade unions have played a big part in providing equity for labor workers. In recent history, the Un...
The demand for higher union wages can be heard from migrant union workers in Florida to GM autoworke...
Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts h...
Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that labor unions,...
a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge Jim Alt and seminar participants...
The paper investigates the nexus between the structure of union wage bargaining and workers' prefere...
From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percen...
First paragraph: A recent book by two Harvard economists. Freeman and Medoff (1984) summarised the r...
Today economic inequality is greater in the United States than in any other advanced nation. Bringin...
We consider why blue collar workers are more likely to organize unions than white collar workers by ...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the unions' bargaining power on production and...
In this study, a compreensive analysis on the union wage gap is performed from the factors that infl...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127...
We know that unions promote economic equality and build worker power, helping workers to win increas...
This paper argues that under current U.S. institutional arrangements, in which managements oppositio...
Trade unions have played a big part in providing equity for labor workers. In recent history, the Un...
The demand for higher union wages can be heard from migrant union workers in Florida to GM autoworke...