In the U.S. private sector, women are less likely than men to be union members. This study analyzes a unique national survey (conducted in 1984) to determine if women are less interested than men in unionizing or if, instead, they are equally interested but face higher barriers to unionization....

This study tests an important implication of Weitzman's profit-sharing theory-the prediction that profit-sharing firms will have more stable employment than fixed-wage firms-using panel data on 2,976 publicly traded companies for the years 1971-85. Profit-sharing manufacturing firms are found to...