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IZA Discussion Paper No. 17709

Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?

Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 2025, 47 (1), 5-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17615

Unions and Employers' Associations in Germany: A Survey of Their Membership, Density and Bargaining Coverage

Claus Schnabel

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 7(2025)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17597

Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies

Uwe Jirjahn

revised version forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen - German Journal of Industrial Relations

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17544

Automation, Trade Unions and Atypical Employment

Piotr Lewandowski, Wojciech Szymczak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17381

The Rules of the Game: Local Wage Bargaining and the Gender Pay Gap

Maria Olsson, Oskar Nordström Skans

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17152

Worker Representatives

Julian Budde, Thomas Dohmen, Simon Jäger, Simon Trenkle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16727

Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation

Uwe Jirjahn

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16697

How Do Firms Respond to Unions?

Samuel Dodini, Anna Stansbury, Alexander Willén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16604

Unionization of Retired Workers in Europe

Vinzenz Pyka, Claus Schnabel

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 31 (1), 5-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16185

The Career Effects of Union Membership

Samuel Dodini, Kjell G. Salvanes, Alexander Willén, Li Zhu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16035

Seeking Shelter in Times of Crisis? Unemployment, Perceived Job Insecurity and Trade Union Membership

Adrian Chadi, Laszlo Goerke

published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (359), 1041-1088

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15893

Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19

Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch

published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (2), 152-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15879

Works Councils and Workers' Party Preferences in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (4), 849 - 877

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15635

The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers

Samuel Dodini, Kjell G. Salvanes, Alexander Willén

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15632

Technical Change, Task Allocation, and Labor Unions

Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger, Franziska Brall

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15552

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Viola Corradini, Lorenzo Lagos, Garima Sharma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15459

Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany

Laszlo Goerke, Yue Huang

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15444

Political Spillovers of Workplace Democracy in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le

revised version published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024, 95 (1), 5-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15333

Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Tony Fang, John Hartley

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15008

Worker Representation

Alex Bryson, John Forth

published in: T. Eriksson (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies , Edward Elgar, 2023, 237–241

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14942

Flexible Wages and the Costs of Job Displacement

Sofía Fernández Guerrico, Ilan Tojerow

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14849

Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization

Pedro Molina Ogeda, Emanuel Ornelas, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 236-280

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14788

Coevolution of Job Automation Risk and Workplace Governance

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Luca Cattani, William Ellis, Fabio Landini

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (3), 104441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14783

Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn

revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 798-826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14654

Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work

Terhi Maczulskij, Mika Haapanen, Antti Kauhanen, Krista Riukula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14555

How Collective Bargaining Shapes Poverty: New Evidence for Developed Countries

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (4), 895-928

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14398

Five Decades of Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps at Unionstats.com

David A. Macpherson, Barry Hirsch

published as 'Five decades of CPS wages, methods, and union-nonunion wage gaps at Unionstats.com' in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 439-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14283

Wage Flexibility under Sectoral Bargaining

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 2062 - 2097

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14143

Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Works Councilors in Germany

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg

substantially revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2024, 45 (1), 38 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14102

Are Unions Detrimental to Innovation? Theory and Evidence

Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera, Andrea Ricci

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13907

What Is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada?

Jiang Li, Benoit Dostie, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain

published as 'Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status', in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (1), 160-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13867

Heterogeneous Impacts of the Decentralization of Collective Bargaining

Antti Kauhanen, Terhi Maczulskij, Krista Riukula

published online as 'The incidence and effects of decentralized wage bargaining in Finland' in: Journal of Labor Research, 5 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13747

Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 229, 106855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13717

Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Fabio Landini

published as 'Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2023, 19 (6), 729 - 746

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13615

The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain

Huw Beynon, Helen Blakely, Alex Bryson, Rhys Davies

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1131-1152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13465

Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants

Claus Schnabel

published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13259

Hit by the Silk Road: How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock

Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud, Karl Ove Moene

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13244

Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Ioana E. Marinescu, Ivan Ouss, Louis-Daniel Pape

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 506 - 605

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13226

Electoral Democracy at Work

Philippe Askenazy, Thomas Breda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13175

Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets

John H. Pencavel

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (1), 139 - 167.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13015

Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2021, 49, 41-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12786

Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys

Abhir Kulkarni, Barry Hirsch

published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 948-976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12546

Creative Destruction, Social Security Uptake and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12515

Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View

Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera, Andrea Ricci

published as 'A simple model of holdup, union voice, and firm investments' in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo and G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace productivity and management practices (Research in Labor Economics, 49), 2021, 67 - 84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12438

Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau, Lutz Bellmann

revised version published as 'Works Council "Disaffection" and Establishment Survivability" in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 70 (1), 38 - 67

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12258

Disability and the Unionized Workplace

Mason Ameri, Mohammad Ali, Lisa Schur, Douglas L. Kruse

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12089

Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation

Yue Qiu, Aaron Sojourner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12013

Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014): An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanromá, Hipólito Simón

published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, 44 (2), 375-395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12008

Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy