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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment : The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Farber, Henry S. - 2014

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...

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Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?

Swee, Eik - 2019

perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of … suggest that civilian perception of well-being ought to be considered seriously as a determinant of war and peace …

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution : Evidence from World War Ii

Rohlfs, Chris - 2015

(troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to … estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities in World War II, holding constant mission effectiveness, usage intensity …

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Collective Bargaining for Women : How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022

Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....

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How Representative are Social Partners in Europe? The Role of Dissimilarity

Martinez-Matute, Marta; Martins, Pedro S. - 2022

Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) and their representativeness can shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, when examining social partners' representativeness, it is important to consider both affiliation...

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Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Fang, Tony; Hartley, John - 2022

Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their members, even after controlling for individual, job, firm, and other characteristics that affect pay (Fang and Verma 2002). This earnings advantage of union workers is known as the...

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Robots and Unions : The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment

Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary - 2022

We analyse the moderating effect of trade unions on industrial employment and unemployment in countries facing exposure to industrial robots. Applying random effects within-between regression to a pseudo-panel of observations from 28 advanced democracies over 1998-2019, we find that stronger...

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Worker Representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers

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