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This paper uses data from four different data sets to examine the union impact on the turnout of members and their support for union-preferred candidates. It rejects the claim that the union share of the electorate rose massively in the 1990s. It finds that union members are about 12 percentage...
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groups. Using survey data on group membership and data on US localities, we find that, after controlling for many individual …
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in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on …
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This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related transitions: adverse selection, the movement of the less healthy to more generous plans; adverse retention, the tendency for people to stay where they are when they...
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Developments in open-economy modeling, and the accumulation of experience with the monetary policy regimes prevailing in the United Kingdom and the euro area, have increased our ability to evaluate the effects that joining monetary union would have on the U.K. economy. This paper considers the...
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fluctuations in the Swedish economy since 1993, implying that EMU membership could be costly. The model also indicates that the …
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data sources including information from Klan membership roles, applications, robe-order forms, an internal audit of the …
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This paper examines the membership dynamics of union local organizations. The analysis links across time the reports … dynamics literature, we find substantial reallocation of membership across locals. While overall there is net decline, there is … significant positive gross membership creation for some local organizations …
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terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with …
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I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …
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