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 prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing …

unions reduce the potency of the external threat of job loss (by making it more difficult for employers to dismiss workers …

Although a large body of research has examined the effects of unions on the wage distribution, surprisingly little … attention has been devoted to the effects of unions on the distribution of income. This paper examines the long-run relationship …, we find that (i) unions have, on average, a negative long-run effect on income inequality, (ii) there is considerable …

Gewerkschaften wird häufig ein baldiges Verschwinden prophezeit. Sie wären das Opfer von Strukturwandel, Globalisierung … Firmengrößen für sinkende Mitgliederzahlen verantwortlich. Dem sollten die Gewerkschaften mit mehr Präsenz vor Ort und aktiven … years, with substantial differences between countries. However, unions are not about to vanish everywhere, and some …

institutionelle Faktoren wie eine von Gewerkschaften verwaltete Arbeitslosenversicherung eine Rolle. Allerdings fehlt es an Ansätzen …

In the present paper it will be shown that trade unions have a positive impact on economic growth. This finding is in …

subjected to content and discourse analysis. The article argues that trade unions can enhance their position through the … accustomed to orienting their action in the public sphere. In this effort trade unions may draw upon the more explicitly … normative and substantive dimension of labour law as a resource to legitimise and garner support for the unions’ objectives …

Do workers’ unions promote gender equality? The scholarship in the past thirty years has increasingly questioned the … ability of unions to give voice to the needs of all workers, including foreign workers, workers with disabilities, elderly … workers, gay and lesbian workers, and women. This article shows that unions promote a patriarchal division of labor in society …