contributed to the divergence, with unions doing better in countries with high inflation. In addition, unemployment raised density … in settings where unions disperse unemployment benefits -- The primary reason for the divergence are differences in the … incentives and opportunities different industrial relations systems give employers to oppose unions. Unions fared best in neo …

conditions in poor countries usually involves large-scale investment where such resources can be easily misallocated. We …

This paper provides evidence for why individuals join unions instead of free-riding. I model membership as legal …

pro-union attitudes that unions could potentially influence to maintain the union impact on elections even with declines …

productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990 …

This paper applies principles from evolutionary biology to the study of unions. We show that unions which maximize the … present discounted wages of current members will be displaced in evolutionary competition by unions with more moderate wage … policies that allow their firms to live longer. This suggests that unions with constitutional incumbency advantages that allow …

Unions compress the wage distribution among workers covered by union contracts. We" ask whether unions also have an …" where unions are stronger, fewer managers are employed …

American Federation of Labor (AFL) affiliated unions. I model unionization as the outcome from a conflict between union … rises with density, then falls with density. Employer opposition is high at low densities but falls once unions gain control … Depression initiated a spurt by increasing worker desires for unions and by raising density above the critical level' for rapid …

1990 the proportion of British establishments which recognised manual or non-manual trade unions for collective bargaining … conjunction with recent changes in the nature of employment in the British labour market, seem to paint a bleak picture for unions …