This paper analyses the characteristics of employer association in Italy, using unique firm-level data with information on employers' affiliation choices as well as their characteristics. We document that a persistent decline in affiliation rates to employers' associations has occurred during...

While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), trade unions' counterparts in many countries. However, besides conducting collective bargaining, EAs perform several other activities that can in uence economic outcomes,...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Preliminary steps to understanding employment and industrial relations in South Korea / Byoung-Hoon Lee -- 1. Viewing Korean employment and industrial relations / Young-Myon Lee and Bruce E. Kaufman -- 2. The historical development of employment and labor...