Add to ORKGThis paper provides evidence for why individuals join unions instead of free-riding. I model membership as legal insurance. To test the model, I use the incidence of news stories concerning allegations against teachers in the UK as a plausibly exogenous shock to demand for such insurance. I find that, for every five stories occurring in a region, teachers are 2.2 percentage points more likely to be members in the subsequent year. These effects are larger when teachers share characteristics with the news story and can explain 45 percent of the growth in teacher union membership between 1992 and 2010
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t716100715~db=all C...
Workers are defaulted to being non-union in employment relationships across the world. A non-union d...
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The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their workplace has ...
Summary: This paper considers the size of the market for unionisation in Britain and what unions ca...
Unlike most unions, teacher unions have maintained steady membership over the past 40 years yet rece...
The introduction of a statutory recognition procedure offers British unions the opportunity to rever...
This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (‘neve...
This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (¿neve...
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Union membership rose by 100,000 in 1999 ending two decades of sustained membership losses û the lon...
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Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t716100715~db=all C...
Workers are defaulted to being non-union in employment relationships across the world. A non-union d...
Using U.S. panel data from 2001–2011, the authors examine general differences in charitable giving b...
The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their workplace has ...
Summary: This paper considers the size of the market for unionisation in Britain and what unions ca...
Unlike most unions, teacher unions have maintained steady membership over the past 40 years yet rece...
The introduction of a statutory recognition procedure offers British unions the opportunity to rever...
This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (‘neve...
This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (¿neve...
Economists have long suggested that labor unions suffer a free rider problem. The argument is that, ...
Unionlearn and union learning representatives were developed by the British TUC to match workers wit...
This paper evaluates whether nature of the union moderates the antecedents of union commitment and p...
This article provides a case study of union change in an environment in which radical school restruc...
Union membership rose by 100,000 in 1999 ending two decades of sustained membership losses û the lon...
Using data from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 1998, this paper shows that unionisation i...
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t716100715~db=all C...
Workers are defaulted to being non-union in employment relationships across the world. A non-union d...
Using U.S. panel data from 2001–2011, the authors examine general differences in charitable giving b...