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Do Unionized Employers Reappropriate Rent through Worsened Workplace Safety?

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  • David Fairris

    (University of California, Riverside)

Abstract

Unionized employers may have an incentive to worsen the quality of working conditions in reaction to union-appropriated monopoly wage rents. Indeed, this is a plausible explanation for why union workers are found to have higher injury rates than their nonunion counterparts. This paper spells out the theoretical conditions under which newly unionized employers will profit from worsening workplace safety and then empirically tests the rent reappropriation hypothesis.

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  • David Fairris, 1995. "Do Unionized Employers Reappropriate Rent through Worsened Workplace Safety?," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 21(2), pages 171-185, Spring.
    • Handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:21:y:1995:i:2:p:171-185
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    1. Barry T. Hirsch & David A. MacPherson & J. Michael Dumond, 1997. "Workers#x0027; Compensation Recipiency in Union and Nonunion Workplaces," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 50(2), pages 213-236, January.
    2. Oscar Rikhotso & Thabiso John Morodi & Daniel Masilu Masekameni, 2021. "Occupational Health Hazards: Employer, Employee, and Labour Union Concerns," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(10), pages 1-61, May.
    3. Aaron Sojourner & Jooyoung Yang, 2022. "Effects of Union Certification on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 75(2), pages 373-401, March.
    4. Nirvikar Singh, 2004. "The Impact of International Labor Standards: A Survey of Economic Theory," International Trade 0412007, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Injury; Nonunion; Safety; Union; Unionized; Workplace Safety;
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    JEL classification:

    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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