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dc.contributor.authorPencavel, John H.en
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-24-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:29:51Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:29:51Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20080828346en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/34830-
dc.description.abstractCan conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or welfare. These indicators combine two measures: union density and the relative union-nonunion wage gap. The indicators are applied to describe the movement of union welfare in the United States over the past eighty years, the differences in union success among groups of U.S. workers, and the variation in union well-being across countries.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3660en
dc.subject.jelJ51en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordTrade unionsen
dc.subject.keywordunion densityen
dc.subject.keywordrelative wage effect of unionismen
dc.subject.keywordunion objectivesen
dc.subject.stwGewerkschaften
dc.subject.stwErfolgsfaktoren
dc.subject.stwNutzenfunktionen
dc.subject.stwGewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgraden
dc.subject.stwLohndifferenzierungen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleHow successful have trade unions been? A utility-based indicator of union well-being-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn577675222en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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