Do Unionized Employers Reappropriate Rent through Worsened Workplace Safety?
Author InfoDavid 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. Download InfoTo download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
