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 …

This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The … determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to … provide summary estimates of the union wage gap for different ranges of union density. Since these estimates fully reflect the …

union based entities on the other. The role of unionism is also central to this inquiry, not only with respect to the degree … to which workplace representation is union dominated but also and more familiarly perhaps through workplace union density … reduced strike activity. However, any such effect is sensitive in particular to the union status of work councilors and time …

This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The … determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw upon a very recent study of the union wage premium to … provide summary estimates of the union wage gap for different ranges of union density. Since these estimates fully reflect the …

This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on … union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap … sources of the union wage gap. A generalization of this technique is applied for the nonlinear case. We find evidence of a …

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending …-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal result is the dominance of the firm fixed effect: the allocation of workers … among firms with different wage policies. For their part, the unobserved skills of union workers have only a modest impact …