This paper uses hazard function estimations together with cross-sectional growth regressions to examine the impact of exit through merger and acquisition (M&A) or failure, and internally-generated growth, on the firm-size distribution of US credit unions. Consolidation through M&A was the principal cause of a reduction in the number of credit unions, but impact on concentration was small. A pos...

We provide the first analyses of infant mortality rates by indigenous ethnic group in Finland, a country that has one of the lowest relative numbers of infant deaths in the world. Using files from the Finnish population register, we identified both of the parents of children born in the period from 1975-2003 according to ethnic affiliation, socioeconomic profile, and demographic position. The i...

This paper discusses the features of the labor market outcome in the presence of homogeneous labor and multiple unions. It is argued that contract curve agreements, or at least efficient bargaining among unions, may be improved upon by a solution with differential or non-uniform wage payments for workers affiliated to different unions. The equilibrium solution in terms of employment and/or wage...

a r t i c l e i n f o The present study considers a unionised (nonlinear) duopoly with two different labour market institutions, i.e. efficient bargaining (EB) and right to manage (RTM), to analyse product market stability under quantity competition with trade unions. We show that when the preference of unions towards wages is small, (i) the parametric stability region under RTM is higher than ...

Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political econo...

ai)(j f?rce in shaping public opinion lhat 'l ^Uencing government action so t0 before considering their attitude ?ntal health there is some advanorta ̂ re.caUing a few facts about their Tran Sati?n in this country. At the ^Und '~frL^on Congress of 1962, one w** and eighty two trade unions shir. rfPresented with a total memberarp ? 8,312,875. Not all trade unions unio 'ated to TUC but the total a...

in this paper we study the relationships existing between total measurability in variation and gould type fuzzy integrability (introduced and studied in [21]), giving a special interest on their behaviour on atoms and on finite unions of disjoint atoms. we also establish that any continuous real valued function defined on a compact metric space is totally measurable in the variation of a regula...