This paper examines the forces that have reduced truck drivers' earnings. First, using 1973-91 Current Population Survey data, the authors find that deregulation accounted for one-third of the decline in drivers' wages, with a larger negative effect on non-union workers than on organized...

Many studies have examined the influence of union density (union members as a percentage of all workers) on earnings in the private sector, but few such studies have looked at the public sector. Using data from the 1991 Current Population Survey, this study estimates the determinants of earnings...

The authors examine the influence of individual and collective voice mechanisms on employee access to and use of six work?life flexibility practices. Their multilevel analyses are based on an original survey of 897 workers nested in departments across eight unionized establishments in the United...

Although many studies show a positive relationship between extent of unionization and union members' wages, some analysts suggest that this relationship could reflect a concentration of labor organization in industries with potentially high wage gains, rather than unions' efficacy in raising...

Two well-documented empirical findings are that unionized employees typically receive substantially higher compensation than their non-union counterparts and that union representation in the United States has declined over time. Some observers have hypothesized a causal link between these two...