tries to answer the questions why people retain their trade union membership in times of declining unionisation. The paper …

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion … significantly positive relationship between risk aversion and the likelihood of union membership. Additionally, we observe a …

Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been … declining dramatically since the early 90's. However, aggregate gross membership numbers do not distinguish by employment status … 1985, 1989, 1993, and 1998 to perform a panel analysis of net union membership among employees. We estimate a correlated …

This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and …