A large number of potential determinants of union membership, which often can be interpreted in terms of costs and benefits, have been incorporated into economists' traditional supply and demand framework or into new models of an individual's decision to unionise (such as social custom theory)....

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...

The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among employees. If works councils represent the face of unions, union membership of employees should be related positively to the existence of works councils and their proximity to unions....

It is now a few years since the introduction of the common currency, and Europe is still experiencing high unemployment. The conventional logic attributes this problem to strong trade unions and other flaws in the labour market. This article takes a different approach. Using a game theoretic...

From 1983 to 1996, the Australian trade union movement led an integrated industrial relations reform agenda aimed at restructuring work organisation, the training system and union structures. These reforms are the basis for the claim that Australia hasdeliberately, successfully and permanently...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium dual labour market model which incorporates both efficiency wages and union bargaining with monopolistically competitive firms. In one sector, a traditional sector produces a homogeneous good and firms face perfect competition on the product...

Die Schwierigkeit, ökologische und soziale Interessenlagen zu verbinden, wird anhand der Interaktion zwischen NGOs und Gewerkschaften deutlich. Ende der 80er Jahre erfolgte eine Öffnung der Gewerkschaften gegenüber NGOs, die sich in ersten gemeinsamen Debatten und Aktivitäten niederschlug....

Die Entwicklung gewerkschaftlicher Programmatiken und Strategien im Umweltschutz wird analysiert als Moment organisationalen Lernens, d.h. des Prozesses der Integration und des Ausbalancierens unterschiedlicher Anschauungen, Einsichten und Interessen, über den Organisationen Handlungskompetenz...