Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the role of unions for job flow rates. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses a longitudinal data set emphasizing the importance of the time dimension. Findings: Using the fixed effects estimator, the author finds that unions decrease the...

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older US studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...