more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the paper attempted to analyse the impact of union membership on wages in the … organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … industries. The estimated wage premiums for union membership for permanent and contract workers are 56.7 per cent and 10.3 per …

Wage premia related to union membership and coverage are examined over 1991-2003, a period involving first decline …-level British Household Panel Survey data and quantile regression techniques allowing for endogeneity of the membership decision …. Raw differentials suggest the presence of large positive membership and coverage premia that are stronger at the bottom of …

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 …

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 …

inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence …

inverted Ushaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence …

We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions. -- unions ; endogenous membership …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … average partial effect of union membership. -- dismissal ; free-riding ; trade union membership ; survey data …

In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom effects in the determination of trade union membership in both countries …. -- Trade union membership ; social custom ; wage bargaining …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly … membership ; never-membership ; Germany …