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Freeman, Richard B. - 2003

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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Dynamics of Union Organizations : A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2007

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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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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Pensions, Unions and Implicit Contracts

Gustman, Alan L. - 1986

This paper analyzes the relation of pension coverage and key plan characteristics to measures of union membership and …

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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status

Gyourko, Joseph - 1986

Studies of public/private sector wage differentials typically assume that the govenment and union status of a worker are exogenous variables. Recently, some studies have relaxed this assumption slightly by allowing the union status to be endogenous. In this paper, we consider a more general...

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Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium

Dickens, William T. - 1986

Studies of the earnings of union workers have consistently shown that they earn considerably more than nonunion workers. This paper considers whether part of this observed union/nonunion differential is due to unions organizing high paying primary sector jobs. We extend our earlier work on the...

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Structural Changes in Unionization : 1973-1981

Dickens, William T. - 1986

This paper presents a decomposition of the decline in union density into structural and within sector components using CPS data for private sector workers. We find that 58 to 68 percent of the decline in private sector unionization between 1973 and 1981 can be accounted for by structural changes...

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Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining

Johnson, George E. - 1986

The recent literature on the economic behavior of unions is dominated by a controversy over whether or not bargaining is Pareto optimal. If unions care about employment as well as wages, efficient bargains between unions and management "should" involve both these variables rather than only...

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The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success

Freeman, Richard B. - 1985

This paper argues that under current U.S. institutional arrangements, in which managements opposition to unions is as important as workers and unions,the magnitude of the union wage premium actually reduces organization rather than increasing it. It reduces organizing success by lowering...

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Standard-Rate Wage Setting, Labor Quality, and Unions

Brown, Charles - 1985

"Standard rate" wage policies, under which all workers in a particular job receive the same wage, are common for blue-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and those who work for large employers.This paper analyzes the impact of standard-rate wage...

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