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The Impact of Unionization on Establishment Closure : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Representation Elections
DiNardo, John - 2002
Using data on more than 27,000 establishments (1983-1999) in the United States, this paper produces estimates of the causal effect of unionization of employer closure by exploiting the fact that most employers become 'unionized' as a partial consequence of a secret ballot election among the...
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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment : The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
Farber, Henry S. - 2014
period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477154
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477331