Wage Determination Under Trade Unions

Trade unions and development

Trade Unions in Germany

The Youth Wage Subsidy in South Africa Response of the Congress of South African Trade Unions

1. The National Treasury document relies on international studies to justify its proposals on youth wage subsidies, or even employment subsidies. But careful reading of those studies reveals that they lean towards the COSATU position. Based on Treasury’s own literature which they used to propose this ill-conceived policy, we have shown that there are no empirical grounds for this policy. The ir...

Centralized Wage Setting , Wage Drift and Stabilization Policies under Trade Unionism

How Trade Unions Increase Welfare

Historically, worker movements have played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better health standards. According to our interpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases the average health of workers and thereby the aggregate labour supply. A laissez-faire approach in which firms set safety standards is suboptimal as workers are not fully info...