Community and Unions

Mutual Gains -community and Unions in a Networked Economy

It has been argued that, given the more varied and less stable employment and the increasingly diversified workforce characteristic of the globalised, technologyled economy of the 21 century, there is need of a new theory of industrial relations (Kochan, 2000). This paper seeks to bring together discussion of new theories from a numb er of disciplines in order to explore the integrated nature o...

Unions, Bargaining and Strikes

Unions and Unemployment∗

This paper examines the impact of unions on unemployment and wages in a dynamic equilibrium search model. We model a union as imposing a minimum wage and rationing jobs to ensure that the union’s most senior members are employed. This generates rest unemployment, where following a downturn in their labor market, unionized workers are willing to wait for jobs to reappear rather than search for a...

Trade unions and development

Unions, Wages, and Skills

Studies uniformly conclude that union wage effects are largest for work­ ers with low measured skills. Longitudinal analysis using 19891901994195 Current Population Survey matched panels produces union pre­ mium estimates equivalent across skill groups, following appropriate sam­ ple restrictions and control for worker-specific skills. Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on ...