The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s density rose steadily, making the United Kingdom the most heavily organized large OECD country. In the 1980s, by contrast, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a...

1. A bibliometric analysis of what do unions do? -- 2. Research synthesis through meta-regression analysis -- 3. Unions and productivity : direct estimates -- 4. Unions and productivity growth -- 5. Unions and productivity : investment channels -- 6. Unions and productivity : employee behavior...

We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...