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34 IZA Discussion Papers
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. 17544
Automation, Trade Unions and Atypical Employment
Piotr Lewandowski, Wojciech Szymczak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17326
Accounting for the Growth of Real Wages of U.S. Manufacturing Production Workers since the Nineteenth Century
John H. Pencavel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17140
An Analysis of the Changes in British Workers' Real Wages since the 19th Century
John H. Pencavel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15080
Robots and Unions: The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment
Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx, Zachary Parolin
published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 827-852
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. 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. 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. 12809
Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry
Thomas Breda, Alex Bryson, John Forth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12546
Creative Destruction, Social Security Uptake and Union Networks
Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11894
Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks
Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11615
State Substitution for the Trade Union Good: The Case of Paid Holiday Entitlements
John Forth, Alex Bryson
published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 5 - 23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11518
The One Constant: A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?
Tobias Brändle, Laszlo Goerke
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economic, 2018, 65 (5), 445 - 478
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11309
Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller
revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11111
Union Density, Productivity and Wages
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1898 - 1936
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10435
Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study
Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen, Kristine Nergaard
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 26 (2), 173 - 190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10292
Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
Francesco Devicienti, Alessandro Manello, Davide Vannoni
published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 260 (3), 1129 - 1141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10043
UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action
Paul Willman, Alex Bryson, John Forth
published as 'UK Unions, Collective Action and the Cost Disease' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (2), 447 - 470
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9963
Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
John Forth, Alex Bryson, Anitha George
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (4), 415-433
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9876
Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (4), 360-378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9466
What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (1), 81-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8802
The Impact of Temporary Agency Work on Trade Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis
Thomas Beissinger, Philipp Baudy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8516
Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size
Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey
revised version published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 263 - 280
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8034
Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition
Alison L. Booth
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 53-58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6792
Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges
Claus Schnabel
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 19 (3), 255-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6534
The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
Andrew Kerr, Francis J. Teal
published as 'The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa' in: Journal of African Economics, 2015, 24 (4), 530- 558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3747
Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India
Amit Kumar Bhandari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3680
Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc
revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3660
How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being
John H. Pencavel
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 47-156.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3436
Union Decline in Britain
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published in: Brown, W. et al. (eds.) - The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, Cambridge University Press, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3055
The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 92-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2518
Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain, 1980-2004
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, John Forth
published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38(4), 285-302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1681
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
Daniele Checchi, Cecilia García-Peñalosa
published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (307), 413-450
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