What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions secure elections in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments that experience an election, unions are more …

What type of businesses attract unions? A theory of union learning and organizing is developed to provide an answer to …

Trade union rights have a considerably long history in Russia. First trade unions were organized as early as in the XIX … trade union activity was delineated. From that time trade unions began to acquire more and more substantive political and … unions in the field of employees’ representation. But none of the alternative bodies had ever acquired such power as trade …

paper argues that, in the specific area of pensions, unions representing high-skilled workers and the core industrial … sectors of the economy have been paradoxically led to increase their cooperation with unions representing the less privileged … segments of labor, and this in order to improve coverage of private pensions across the board. These unions' motivations for …

The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as well as the controversies surrounding the conclusions of … existing empirical research. Although it is difficult to draw firm and general conclusions on the effects of unions on firm …

probably no, at least with respect to labour actors (unions), which face several problems. There are thousands of unions in … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long … environment will lead unions not only to contest fewer elections but also to focus on larger potential bargaining units and on …

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long … environment will lead unions not only to contest fewer elections but also to focus on larger potential bargaining units and on …

non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical …