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Freeman, Richard B. - 2003

This paper uses data from four different data sets to examine the union impact on the turnout of members and their support for union-preferred candidates. It rejects the claim that the union share of the electorate rose massively in the 1990s. It finds that union members are about 12 percentage...

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Membership density and trade union power

Crouch, Colin - In: Transfer : European review of labour and research ; … 23 (2017) 1, pp. 47-61

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National Culture and Union Membership : A Cultural-Cognitive Perspective

Posthuma, Richard A. - 2010

-cognitive perspective to study the influence of multiple dimensions of national culture on union membership. Cultural frameworks were … predictors and they also enabled an improved understanding of the relationships between national culture and union membership …. This resolved the paradoxical lack of a significant relationship between collectivism and union membership in prior …

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Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion … significantly positive relationship between risk aversion and the likelihood of union membership. Additionally, we observe a …

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A Union Representative's Perspective of Declining Union Membership

Rivers, Dr. Melvin; Truitt, Tim - 2014

Union membership has declined 24.2 percent since 1945. Declining union membership leads to economic losses for labor … unions. The problem is relevant to scholars and the labor movement, requiring a deeper understanding of union membership … decline. In this qualitative study, experiences with declining union membership are explored with union representatives in Los …

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A Segmented Model of Union Participation

Flood, Patrick; Turner, Thomas; Willman, Paul - 2001

This article presents and explores a model of union participation using union orientation as a segmenting criterion. Union orientation is shown to have a strong relationship with participation rates. The relationship between union segmentation, social networks, and political socialization is...

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Institutional Change and Union Membership : A Longitudinal Analysis of Union Membership Determinants in Israel

Harel, Gedaliahu; Tzafrir, Shay S.; Bamberger, Peter - 2001

We examine the degree to which factors associated with workers' union membership decisions are sensitive to shifts in … membership and actual union membership over time suggest that the factors associated with membership are elastic and may reflect …

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'Investment' in Union Membership : A Managerial Approach

Sjogren, Tomas - 2004

This paper concerns wage formation in a unionized economy when union membership is endogenous and determined by …. This is achieved by building up membership. Among the results, it is found that since membership is determined by …

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Employers' associations and trade unions : co-existence or more?

Giannakopoulos, Nicholas; Nicolitsas, Daphne - 2022

We discuss the interrelationship between membership in employers' associations and the exis- tence of trade unions. The … potentially a dependence between membership in the two types of organizations despite the fact that mem- bership in the two …

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Trade union membership : methods and measurement in the European Community

Walsh, Kenneth - 1985

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