'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). A review of the international empirical evidence shows that business cycle factors and structural developments are important macro-determinants, whereas micro-determinants include personal, occupational and firm characteristics, earnings, attitudes and social variables. In addition, institutional determinants such as a union-affiliated unemployment insurance play a role. What is often missing, however, are attempts to integrate macro- and micro-leve...
Trade unions often emphasise their objective of protecting and representing workers’ common interest...
Based on the Socioeconomic Panel, this paper pursues for the first time a panel analysis of trade un...
This article contributes to the political economic literature regarding the effects of industrial re...
This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Feder...
Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union ...
'Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union...
This study presents econometric estimations of union-membership functions based on a large set of mi...
Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union ...
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-econ...
Unionization in Germany has declined considerably during the last two decades. We estimate the impac...
Union membership has declined in almost all European and other advanced economies, though in many ca...
This article surveys recent data and empirical literature on (trends in) unionization and its determ...
We analyse the determinants of union membership in the UK using data from the BHPS (1991-2003). Emp...
The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union de...
This thesis is an econometric investigation of what determines an individual's probability of union...
Trade unions often emphasise their objective of protecting and representing workers’ common interest...
Based on the Socioeconomic Panel, this paper pursues for the first time a panel analysis of trade un...
This article contributes to the political economic literature regarding the effects of industrial re...
This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Feder...
Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union ...
'Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union...
This study presents econometric estimations of union-membership functions based on a large set of mi...
Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union ...
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-econ...
Unionization in Germany has declined considerably during the last two decades. We estimate the impac...
Union membership has declined in almost all European and other advanced economies, though in many ca...
This article surveys recent data and empirical literature on (trends in) unionization and its determ...
We analyse the determinants of union membership in the UK using data from the BHPS (1991-2003). Emp...
The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union de...
This thesis is an econometric investigation of what determines an individual's probability of union...
Trade unions often emphasise their objective of protecting and representing workers’ common interest...
Based on the Socioeconomic Panel, this paper pursues for the first time a panel analysis of trade un...
This article contributes to the political economic literature regarding the effects of industrial re...