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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions secure elections in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments that experience an election, unions are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
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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 … environment will lead unions not only to contest fewer elections but also to focus on larger potential bargaining units and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058305
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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being
Haile, Getinet A. - 2013
This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089286
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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018
Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908876
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Union Density, Productivity and Wages
Barth, Erling - 2017
We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...
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The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain
Beynon, Huw - 2020
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824999
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Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2021
density would have fallen by 5 percentage points between 2001 and 2012. Since membership fees are a substantial part of unions …' total revenues the findings have important implications for unions' viability. They are also significant because union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315272
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data – for rejection,production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period,more than 77,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862585
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-Members' Well-Being
Haile, Getinet A. - 2014
non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049730
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Worker Representation
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022
We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083919