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Inequality and Union Membership : The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes
Checchi, Daniele; Visser, Jelle; van de Werfhorst, Herman G. - 2021
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from … groups. Next, we examine the impact of inequality attitudes on union membership. We show that union membership is not only … affected by individual expected benefits related to education or earnings, but that attitudes towards inequality also play an …
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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets : The Israeli Case
Neuman, Shoshana - 2015
Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2021
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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Men, Women and Unions
Haile, Getinet A. - 2023
The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted. The paper reviews different strands of the...
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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors
Blanchflower, David G. - 2009
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...
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Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation : New Results from Mixed Methods
Berton, Fabio - 2019
Among the steps to improve a country's competitiveness, several commentators and international institutions include a general emphasis on deregulation and decentralization of industrial relations. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by studying whether and how firm-level unionism and...
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Unions and Firms' Investments : A Unified View
Berton, Fabio - 2019
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have positive effects on labor effort, we find that the classic hold-up problem does not necessarily...
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The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain
Beynon, Huw - 2020
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
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