NBER WP: www.nber.org/papers/w34072

Ungated copy here: jaeger.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

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Thanks for the kind words, Jacob!

Paper available here: economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

NBER WP here: www.nber.org/papers/w33267

Comments welcome!

Most importantly: phenomenal work by @alexanderbusch.bsky.social on the chapter! 🙏 Alex is a Ph.D. student at MIT Sloan and MIT IWER and has several very cool + independent projects on unions, collective bargaining, strikes, and much more! Follow him for insights on these topics!

We then conduct a harmonized study of collective bargaining coverage, premia, compression, and selection into collective bargaining coverage, drawing on data from the US, Canada and the European Structure of Earnings Survey.

We then take an even deeper dive and describe varieties of industrial relations systems around the world. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇳🇮🇳🇿🇦

We take a deep dive into the many ways in which different industrial relations systems shape collective bargaining (opening clauses, extensions, wage cushions and much more).

We start with the observation that collective bargaining coverage is *substantially* higher than union membership in many countries (very different from the US). And that across countries, collective bargaining is associated with less wage inequality.