councils may be construed as largely beneficial. However, any such optimistic evaluation is heavily qualified by union … organization and in particular workplace unionism. Establishment union density seemingly blunts the performance of employee …

. These findings imply that union presence is not only able to compress wage inequality, but might reduce earnings inequality …

coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional … setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union power as measured by net union density (NUD) in a labor market segment … regressions, this is the first empirical paper which simultaneously analyzes these three dimensions of union influence on the …