The introduction of good faith bargaining in Western Australia: Policy origins and implications for collective bargaining Michael Gillan and Donella Caspersz University of Western Australia The Australian Industrial Relations Commission ruled in 2003 that there was no legal duty on parties to bargain in ‘good faith’. In Western Australia, the Gallop Labor Government has introduced good faith ba...

It is shown that when wages are determined through collective bargaining, there is a non-monotonic relationship between the cost of o¤shoring and unemployment. Starting from a high cost of o¤shoring, a decrease in the cost of o¤shoring reduces unemployment …rst and then increases it. The non-monotonicity of unemployment in the cost of o¤shoring does not obtain if wages are determined by individ...

Trade unions provide a voice in the way firms are run, an input into reward systems and increased security of employment. But these vary with national context. Using transnational survey evidence, we explore the relative impact of setting, and of unions and collective bargaining, on these issues. We find that, irrespective of context organisations are significantly more likely to make usage of ...

Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increa...

Do collective bargaining rights for law enforcement result in more civilian deaths at the hands of police? Using an event-study design, we find that introduction duty to bargain requirements with police unions has led a significant increase non-white during late twentieth century. We no impact on various crime rate measures and suggestive evidence decline employment, consistent increasing compe...