Do Unionized Employers Reappropriate Rent through Worsened Workplace Safety?

David Fairris

Eastern Economic Journal, 1995, vol. 21, issue 2, 171-185

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.

Keywords: Injury; Nonunion; Safety; Union; Unionized; Workplace Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J28 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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