This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and … the sectoral structure of the economy and the composition of the workforce have played a role, their contribution to union … in various parts of the world poses a challenge to union recruitment. Union density and bargaining coverage are related …

policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its … bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers choose their union, permitting a difference-in-differences design to study …

that only employ regular workers. However, if firms decide to employ agency workers, trade union wage claims will increase …

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …