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Union wage effects


Labor Unions and the U.S. Economy | U.S. Department of the Treasury

Nonunionized firms in competition with unionized workplaces may choose to raise wages, change hiring practices, or improve their workplace ...

Unions are not only good for workers, they're good for communities ...

Unionization has a range of positive economic impacts in addition to decreasing wage inequality and closing gender and race wage gaps. Sojourner ...

Union wage effects | IZA World of Labor

What are the economic implications of union wage bargaining for workers, firms, and society? Keywords: trade unions, wages, bargaining, labor market, firm ...

The enormous impact of eroded collective bargaining on wages

Collective bargaining increases and equalizes wages for union workers and nonunion workers in unionized occupations and sectors.

How Unions Are Crucial for Building Working-Class Economic Power

Union workers benefit from collective bargaining in all sorts of way—higher wages, better benefits, increased job stability, safer workplaces, ...

The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector: Evidence from ...

We find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of the distribution of salaries.

Union 'effects' on hourly and weekly wages: A half-century perspective

Union membership across the developed world has been falling for decades. This column uses data on wages and hours worked in the US over the ...

Treasury Department Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Report on Benefits ...

Unions raise the wages of their members by 10 to 15 percent. Unions also improve fringe benefits and workplace procedures such as retirement ...

The Impact of Unions on Wages in the Public Sector: Evidence from ...

We also examine the effect of unionization on the entire distribution of salaries. Finally, available information on “salary floors” (that vary ...

The Union Effect in California #1: Wages, Benefits, and Use of ...

We estimate that workers covered by a union contract in California earn 12.9 percent more on average than non-union workers with similar ...

Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality

Accounting for unions' effect on union and nonunion wages suggests that the decline of organized labor explains a fifth to a third of the growth in inequality— ...

4 Ways Unions Make Our Economy and Democracy Stronger

Unions raise wages for workers from every background ... When workers come together in unions, they can negotiate for higher wages and benefits.

The Effect of Trade Unions on Wages | Cairn.info

Unions' bargaining strength is enhanced by the percentage of all workers they represent and leads to a higher union wage premium.

Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Reflecting the importance of unions, particularly their effects on workers, the literature on the union wage premium is one of the most ...

Does unionization reduce wage inequality? New evidence from ...

A rise in the unionization increases the labor's bargaining strength μ, which raises the wage premium α for unskilled labor in sector X according to Equation (2) ...

Unions and Wage Inequality - David Card

Of particular interest are patterns in union coverage and union wage impacts by gender and skill. To do so, we use micro data samples to compare the incidence ...

Labor Unions - Econlib

That second effect occurs because of the basic law of demand: if unions successfully raise the price of labor, employers will purchase less of it. Thus, unions ...

Union Density Effects on Productivity and Wages - Oxford Academic

The results show that increasing union density at the firm level leads to a substantial increase in both productivity and wages.

Chapter 20 Union relative wage effects - ScienceDirect.com

In recent years, the wage gap usually has been estimated by fitting wage equations to cross-section (CS), individual-worker data on wages (micro), union status ...

The Effect of Unions on the Structure of Wages - jstor

the longitudinal evidence in his landmark survey of union wage effects. In this paper I present some new evidence on the union wage effect, based on a ...