Reviews the literature on trade union membership in OECD countries. After considering the ways in which trade union … also important. Time‐series studies find that while union growth and decline are linked to the business cycle, with wages … causes of union decline since 1980, together with recent error‐correction and cointegration approaches to modelling trade …

Looks at a union model where a trade union leader represents union members in dealing with the firm. The union leader … is risk neutral and derives his utility solely from the union fees. The employment level is efficient, and equivalent to … the contracts without a union leader, when the unemployed receive severance pay and wages and employment is included in …

can be extended in an economy with high rates of casualisation, falling trade union densities and considerable differences …

– With union-bargained minimum wages, unions and employers need to carefully consider the effects of increasing rates on …. Originality/value – The literature on employment effects of minimum wages is large, but very few studies are concerned with union …

protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages (MW), union power and tax wedge on migration flows. The … MW, unemployment benefits and union power. The authors show heterogeneous effects depending on the group of countries of …