TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Barth, Erling
AU  - Bryson, Alex
AU  - Dale-Olsen, Harald
        TI  - Union Density, Productivity and Wages
        PY  - 2017/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11111
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11111
        AB  - We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of unionization. The wage effect is larger in more productive firms, consistent with rent-sharing models.
        KW  - trade unions
KW  - union density
KW  - productivity
KW  - wages
        ER  -