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Title: Deunionization in the US: A Panel Data Analysis from1973 to 1999

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: There are four different hypotheses analyzed in the literature that explain deunionization, namely: the decrease in the demand for union representation by the workers the impact of globalization over unionization rates technical change and changes in the legal and political systems against unions. This paper aims to test all of them. We estimate a logistic regression using panel data procedure with 35 industries from 1973 to 1999 and conclude that the four hypotheses can not be rejected by the data. We also use a variance analysis decomposition to study the impact of these variables over the drop in unionization rates. In the model with no demographic variables the results show that these economic(tested) variables can account from 10% to 12% of the drop in unionization. However, when we include demographic variables these tested variables can account from 10% to 35% in the total variation of unionization rates. In this case the four hypotheses tested can explain up to 50% of the total drop in unionization rates explained by the model.

Url: http://epge.fgv.br/files/1874.pdf

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Authors: De Holanda, Fernando; Filho, Barbosa

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Topics: Population Data Science

Countries: United States