union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take …-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for membership. The price elasticity of demand for union membership is - 7 … of the hikes in tax subsidies and holding workforce composition constant aggregate private sector union membership …

US. A recent study by Hönigsberger (2008) for Germany basically concludes union members to overwhelmingly stick to their … contradicting empirical results, based on a newly constructed dataset for Germany. In a VAR analysis we find that the degree of … in Germany trade unions do not seem to be as weak as they tend to claim. -- trade unions ; unemployment ; growth …

-unionized public sector, namely Germany during the period 1970-2007. The union model is an improvement over a model with exogenous …

paper, we investigate the effects of minimum wage increases on union membership among individuals in minimum wage intensive … industries. Consistent with a "freeriding" hypothesis, we find that minimum wage increases predict declines in union membership … among low-skilled's most direct beneficiaries. We find no evidence of a change in union membership among high …