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Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2014

the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …

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UK trades unions and the problems of collective action

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

This paper looks at the financial resources of trades unions in the UK, both updating previous work and attempting to understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. First order problems refer to the problems of initiating collective action and second order...

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An experimental study of voting with costly delay

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

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Voting as a war of attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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Are the upwardly-mobile more Left-wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

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Registering returning citizens to vote

Doleac, Jennifer L.; Eckhouse, Laurel; Foster-Moore, Eric; … - 2021

Millions of people in the US are eligible to vote despite past criminal convictions, but their voter participation rates are extraordinarily low. In this study, we report the results of a series of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of mail-based interventions aimed at encouraging people with...

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Unionization of retired workers in Europe

Pyka, Vinzenz; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...

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The surprising retreat of Union Britain

Pencavel, John H. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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What do unions do in times of economic crisis? : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015

Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, little is known about the actual relevance of trade unions for individual workers in the...

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Labour immigration and union strength

Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - 2018

To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...

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