This article uses workplace level data from the recent Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey to test a simple demand and supply model explaining the level of union membership within Australia. The findings suggest that previous research using individual-level data has understated the...

This article extends previous economic treatments of the work attendance decision by providing a more complete specification of the absence penalty function. In particular, the penalty for absence is modelled as a function of both the opportunity cost of dismissal for excessive absence and the...