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We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European … countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020 …
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We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European … countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429602
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
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The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
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We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...
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Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269078
The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk …-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted … results obtained suggest that men have been deserting unions and that there is an inverse link between membership and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595769
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
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This research note shows a marked change in the relative incidence of cases of derecognition and recognition in the period 1994-1998. It shows that the level of derecognition has fallen significantly in recent years while that of the signing of new recognition agreements has continued at its...
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The author studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on job satisfaction. Using eleven waves (5ñ15) of the British Household Panel Survey, he documents evidence rejecting the paradox of dissatisfied union members. By separating union "free-riders" from union...
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