Worker Characteristics, Unionization and Corporate Mergers

该奖项是由少数民族研究启动计划资助的计划拨款。计划补助金的目的是为研究者准备有竞争力的研究计划提供财政支持。这项计划补助金将使研究者能够准备一份研究计划，重点分析兼并和收购对各个行业工资的影响。由于限制较少的反垄断政策和放松管制的增加，兼并的频率和规模在20世纪80年代显著上升。人们担心，这种产品市场的结构性变化会改变雇佣关系。例如，工会领导人认为，20世纪80年代的公司合并浪潮对工会成员造成了不成比例的伤害。合并有时会导致新公司拒绝现有的工会或寻求重大让步。这就提出了一种可能性，即合并的一个原因是为了获取工会租金。这项拟议的研究将试图用个体工人的数据来解释合并的模式。

The award is for a planning grant funded under the Minority Research Initiation Program. The purpose of a planning grant is to provide financial support for an investigator to prepare a competitive research proposal. This planning grant will enable the investigator to prepare a research proposal which focuses on analyzing the effects of mergers and buy outs on wages in various industries. As a result of less restrictive antitrust policy, and increased deregulation, the frequency and size of mergers rose significantly during the 1980's. There is concern that employment relations will be altered by this structural change in product markets. Union leaders, for example, content that the wave of corporate mergers in the 1980's disproportionately harmed union members. Mergers occasionally resulted in the new corporation repudiating existing unions or seeking major concessions. This raises the possibility that one reason for mergers is to capture union rents. This proposed research will attempt to explain the pattern of mergers using individual worker data.