The experience of the South African independent unions underscores some of the complexities of union growth and decline. Whilst, as predicted in the literature, there is some relationship between institutional changes, economic trends, and long term structural change, it is clear that causal relationships are both complex and interrelated. Indeed, closer qualitative analysis of organizational t...

Trade unions have received little attention in sustainability transitions research, despite their capacity to influence policy decisions. This article presents a study of how key Norway country with large petroleum sector as well high union level density – moved preferences on transition issues the period 2007–2019. With document-based process analysis trade unions’ changing and interpretations...

This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them to countries with sovereign monies by examining the criteria for Mundell’s concept of an optimum currency area. We find that members of currency unions are more integrated than countries with their own cur...

Introduction Almost 20 percent of the people in the work force are union members. Just in terms of numbers, trade unions are an important influence in the labor market and in the U.S. economy. Further, unions are widely believed to play a major role in determining workers' standard of living and how work is done and in affecting firms' profitability. Freeman and Medoff (1984) recently presented...

This paper analyses the scope for collusive behaviour within the context of an international duopoly supergame in which both firms and monopoly labour unions interact strategically. We find that the presence of unions, implying an endogenisation of production costs, dramatically alters the incentives for inter-firm collusion. There are, however, strong incentives for the unions to collude, rais...

Ever since H. G. Lewis’s classic (1963) study of union relative wages, the empirical study of the economic effects of trade unions has been a thriving industry in the U.S. Since that time, the empirical analysis of unions’ effects has spread to encompass outcomes other than wages --including profits, productivity and employment—and to consider unionism in other countries, including the U.K. and...

nds that on almost every conceivable measure, union power has declined. The paper addresses the practical impact of changes in the environment for unionism and fi nds that unions in 2004 are doing ‘more’ with ‘less’ than they were in the late 1980s. However, an examination of key aspects of unionism during the late 1990s and early 2000s, suggests that while the condition of Australian trade uni...

The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ perceptions multiple trade unions in promoting professional development among teachers. objective specifically was; teachers ‘perceptions Teachers. form qualitative, it a case design involving ten public secondary school (A-J) Dodoma city council. population were Trade Unions’ Members, Leaders and Tanzania Registrar Unions. sampling procedure u...

Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set covering 217 countries from 1948 through 1997. During this sample a large number of countries left currency unions; they experienced economically and statistically significant declines in bilateral trade, after accounting for other factors. Assuming symmetry, we estimate that a ...

Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set covering 217 countries from 1948 through 1997. During this sample a large number of countries left currency unions; they experienced economically and statistically significant declines in bilateral trade, after accounting for other factors. Assuming symmetry, we estimate that a ...