We study collective bargaining's effect on relative employment for youth, women, and older
individuals. Our model of collective wage setting predicts that unionization reduces …

We study collective bargaining's effect on relative employment for youth, women, and older
individuals. Our model of collective wage setting predicts that unionization reduces …

Using microdata from 1985 to 1994 for fifteen OECD countries, I find that greater union
coverage and membership lead to higher relative pay and lower relative employment for …

Union density The economic roles of unions and institutions We study the evolution of union
density in 14 European countries over the postwar period in light of theoretical rationales for …

In this investigation, a political economy model of the labor market is proposed, where
unions offer their (old and new) affiliates the combinations between the average real wage …

This paper studies labor demand and supply interactions between two sectors, one
(nonunion) sector with worker–firm bargaining, and one (union) sector with a common wage …

This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership
in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union …

We model income distribution by considering a population composed by 4 groups of
economic agents: capitalists, skilled and unskilled workers, and unemployed. By assuming …

This paper presents new evidence on the effects of changing union membership on trends
in wage dispersion in the US labor market. I use data from the mid-1970s and early 1990s to …

This paper studies the collective bargaining systems in European Union countries and the
United States and evaluates their possible impacts on income inequality by summarising the …