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What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?
Salvatori, Andrea - 2009
In the EU, one in seven employees work on temporary contracts associated with lower pay and less training. Using workplace-level data from 21 countries, I show that, in contrast with previous evidence for the US, unionized workplaces are more likely to use temporary employment across Europe. To...
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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
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...
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UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action
Willman, Paul - 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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Labour Immigration and Union Strength
Finseraas, Henning - 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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Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival : The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro
Koman, Matjaz - 2013
-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …
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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Sojourner, Aaron - 2012
Controversies over the promise and perils of union political influence have erupted around the U.S. This study develops the first evidence on the degree to which labor unions develop members' political leadership in the broader community by studying the relationship between state legislators'...
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The Wage Impact of Trade Unionsin the UK Public and Private Sectors
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membershipwage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range ofindividual, job and...
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World:Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governancenorm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density inthe U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from aformalized union norm to...
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...
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What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?
Even, William E. - 2010
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension assets to promote union goals will vary with the design of the pension. Using panel data on over...
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