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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first CenturyA Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti$
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century: A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

Tito Boeri, Agar Brugiavini, and Lars Calmfors

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9780199246588

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0199246580.001.0001

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Conclusions

Conclusions

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(p.248) 6 Conclusions
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The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century
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Tito Boeri (Contributor Webpage)

Agar Brugiavini

Lars Calmfors (Contributor Webpage)

Alison Booth

Michael Burda (Contributor Webpage)

Daniele Checchi

Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Contributor Webpage)

Richard Freeman

Pietro Garibaldi (Contributor Webpage)

Bertil Holmlund

Robin Naylor

Martin Schludi

Thierry Verdier

Jelle Visser (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199246580.003.0012

Summarizes the main findings of this part of the report, stressing how the seniority bias in unions leads to economic outcomes that are more favourable to older workers. It analyses the ways in which unions can counteract this tendency and choose policies that benefit both young and older workers. Four final questions arise: (1) Do unions interact with the welfare state? How do they do it? (2) What explains union policies toward welfare outcomes? (3) Which institutional structure emphasizes unions' welfare‐enhancing activities relative to unions' rent‐seeking activities? (4) Can unions contribute to a reform of welfare systems?

Keywords:   reform, seniority bias, union policies, unions' rent‐seeking activities, unions' welfare‐enhancing activities, welfare outcomes, welfare state

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