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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"union density"”.
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Democracy in Unequal Times: How Economic Inequality Influences Voter Turnout, Party Polarization, and Union Density
… analyze the implications of inequality for unionization levels in democracies. Contrary to intuition, I argue that inequality reduces union density: in unequal times, workers lose confidence in unions. This increases the risk of de-unionization over time. Studying both individual survey data …
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Globalization, Labor Market Transformation, and Union Decline in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
… of total, private, and public sector union density among 191 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas in the year 2000. In particular, I examine the effects of five measures of globalization (global capital, foreign direct investment, exports, foreign-born citizens, and foreign-born …
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Collective Bargaining and Public Education Expenditures: Do Teachers’ Unions Propose and Voters Dispose?
… examines how collective bargaining by teachers’ unions affects public school expenditures in the United States, under different collective bargaining laws. It offers a unified empirical framework to test for the relative influence of the budget-maximizing bureaucracy model and the median voter …
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Taking an occupational lens to worker voice and preference for labor representation
Union density declined as the U.S. economy shifted away from production and membership rates stagnated or declined in the growing service or knowledge sector occupations. Recent collective actions among these occupations including union organizing, protests, and petitions suggest a potential …
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Why do employers bargain at particular levels? : a longitudinal case study of Western Cape Clothing Employers' perceptions and behaviour with regard to levels of collective bargaining, 1991-1995
… and factors such as industrial structure, trade union density, and the statutory framework for collective bargaining, the methodology used for this dissertation focusses on the role of employers as social actors that mediate between such environmental factors in developing their preferences for a …
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An analysis of the impact of privatisation and deregulation on the UK bus and coach and port industries
… any changes that have occurred in trade union density in these industries compared with what has happened in the rest of the economy. (4) To see if there was any evidence of rent sharing prior to privatisation and deregulation. If it did exist, did it continue after privatisation and …
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Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
… Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 focus on the role of unionization in structural change. In Chapter 1, I provide detailed dynamics by constructing an index for the degree of unionization for each sector in each region of South Korea and Taiwan. The magnitude of growth-enhancing structural change was …
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The application of TQM within small and medium sized construction related organisations
… context of organisation size, TQM maturity and union density. The results of the surveys provided the levels of implementation of TQM in both TQM and Non-TQM organisations. The survey results of the study indicated that while TQM deploying organisations were more advanced in the observation of …
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Ταξική σύνθεση των συνδικάτων και προσδιοριστικοί παράγοντες της συνδικαλιστικής πυκνότητας στην Ελλάδα
Η ανά χείρας διατριβή διερευνά την ταξική σύνθεση των συνδικάτων και τους προσδιοριστικούς παράγοντες της συνδικαλιστικής πυκνότητας στην Ελλάδα. Δεδομένης της αναμόρφωσης του συστήματος συλλογικών διαπραγματεύσεων στην Ελλάδα την περίοδο της οικονομικής κρίσης και σαν αποτέλεσμά της, εξετάζεται η …
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Strategies and revitalisation for survival of trade unions in Africa : the role of Information Communication Technologies
African trade unions are faced with dramatic trade union membership decline and some of the trade unions have seen the need to use information and communication technology (ICT) as a strategy to reverse the membership decline. There has been a discussion based on the way trade unions use the new …