policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its … bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers choose their union, permitting a difference-in-differences design to study …

Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for …

Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and …-socialist countries from the Life in Transition-2 survey, we find that trade union members were less likely than similar non-members to … lose their jobs during the crisis. This beneficial effect of trade union membership was more pronounced in countries which …

to the basic assumptions that animate traditional labor law: first, that a union has leverage and significant bargaining … power vis-à-vis an employer; second, that the union and the employer are repeat players in negotiations, and that … calculations; and third, that the bargaining unit represented by the union is relatively easily discernable and relatively stable …