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 …

Is Brazil's economic policy regime a mere tinkering of the Washington Consensus? The
evidence suggests that Brazilian governments institutionalized a hybrid policy regime that …

Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff's now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do?
stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade …

For the past 25 years, India's economy has grown at an average rate of nearly 6% annually.
The widely embraced argument that this growth acceleration results from the Indian state's …

In this article, we use enterprise population‐level data to investigate the effectiveness of
Chinese unions in improving employee wage and nonwage compensation. We show that …

I use a large merger to study the effects of a concentration on labor market outcomes. I find
that concentration lowers wages, but the effects are different than prior estimates in the …

This paper documents recent labor market performance in the Latin American region. The
paper shows that unemployment, informality, and inequality have been falling over the past …

To what extent have macro and structural reforms in many developing countries affected the
labor market? Are current policy settings in the labor market adequate to cope with the …

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 …

This paper considers the effects of trade unions on the education sector in Argentina. We
have provided a substantial amount of new information and we have found useful …