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What Do Unions Do ... to Voting?
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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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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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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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …
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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
groups. Using survey data on group membership and data on US localities, we find that, after controlling for many individual …
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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462913
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Selection Stories : Understanding Movement Across Health Plans
Cutler, David M. - 2009
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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Euro Membership as a U.K. Monetary Policy Option : Results from a Structural Model
DiCecio, Riccardo - 2009
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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Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU : Evidence from an Estimated Model
Söderström, Ulf - 2008
fluctuations in the Swedish economy since 1993, implying that EMU membership could be costly. The model also indicates that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464128
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Hatred and Profits : Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2007
data sources including information from Klan membership roles, applications, robe-order forms, an internal audit of the …
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