This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market
institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes …

This paper reviews the evidence on the impacts of selected labor market institutions. It sets
out to make three contributions to the existing literature. First, it includes research findings …

The global economic crisis that unfolded in late 2008 exposed fundamental shortcomings in
the regulation of finance, inadequacies in corporate governance and deepening …

This paper provides an overview of how African labour markets have performed in the
1990s. It is argued that the failure of African labour markets to create good paying jobs has …

Consistent with Convention 87 of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Section 79 of
the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) empowers every employee in an organization to either form …

Trade unions have an important role to play in stemming the rising tide of inequality. As
actors in political processes they can influence the direction of economic and social policy …

This report examines how low educational attainment is associated with significant
economic costs for private individuals, for taxpayers, and for society. Specifically, higher …

Many scholars argue that workforce unionization leads to a reduction in R&D investment
because unions appropriate a share of the returns to successful inventive efforts. On the …

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in sha** wages and influencing firms'
employment decisions and firm survival, especially in industrialised countries, and where …

Purpose This study seeks to estimate union wage effect in the public and private sectors of
Ghana, respectively. It also seeks to ascertain whether the union wage effect in the two …