Unions and Tangible Investments

Unions and Tangible Investments A Review and New Evidence in France

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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 ...