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Economic Analysis of Trade Unionism
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 113 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trade barrier & Free trade.read more
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Chapter 13 The economic analysis of labor market discrimination: A survey
TL;DR: A survey on the economics of labor market discrimination, motivated by two fundamental problems associated with income and wage differences among groups classified by sex, race, ethnicity, and other characteristics is presented in this article.
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The Economic Theory of Trade Unions: An Introductory Survey
TL;DR: An introductory survey of work on the economic theory of trade union behaviour can be found in this article, which concentrates on recent contributions to the literature, sets out a number of central results and ideas, and speculates on future topics for research.
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The Microeconomic Theory of the Trade Union
TL;DR: The authors pointed out that there has been little theoretical analysis of the behaviour of trade unions, and that the problem of trade union analysis has proved to be virtually intractable, and pointed out the need for theoretical explanations of unions' behaviour.
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Unions and wage inequality
TL;DR: The impact of unions on the structure of wages has recently attracted renewed interest as analysts have struggled to explain the rise in earnings inequality in several industrialized countries as mentioned in this paper, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Trade Unions in the Production Process
Charles Brown,James L. Medoff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Cobb-Douglas production function is modified so that unionization is included as a variable and the resulting functional form is similar to that used to isolate the effect of worker quality in previous studies.
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Money-wage dynamics and labor-market equilibrium
TL;DR: In this article, a generalized excess-demand theory of the rate of change of the average money-wage rate has been developed for frictional labor markets that allocate heterogeneous jobs and workers without having perfect information and market clearance by auction.
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Racial Discrimination and Trade Unionism
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the likely determinants of a union's policy regarding race and estimates of the effect of the presence of unionism on the average wage of black workers relative to the average of white workers under various types of union organizational structure are presented.
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The Effects of Unionization on the Distribution of Income: A General Equilibrium Approach
TL;DR: A geometrical analysis, 540.A numerical analysis, 547.A model with two types of labor, 558 as mentioned in this paper, and a model with monopoly elements, 559.