Union Membership and Wage Bargaining when Membership is not Compulsory

This paper provides a formal model of union wage and membership determination where the union is recognised for bargaining purposes, where membership of the union is not compulsory, and where the union faces a budget constraint in its organisation activities. This simultaneous equation model is then...

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Published in:The Economic journal (London) 1995-03, Vol.105 (429), p.345-360
Main Authors: Booth, Alison L., Chatterji, Monojit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bargaining
Collective bargaining
Economic models
Employment
Grievance procedures
Impacts
Incentive pay
Labor negotiations
Labor unions
Open shops
Statistical analysis
Theory
Trade union membership
Union contracts
Union membership
Wage negotiations
Wage rate
Wage surveys
Wages
Wages & salaries
Workforce
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Summary:This paper provides a formal model of union wage and membership determination where the union is recognised for bargaining purposes, where membership of the union is not compulsory, and where the union faces a budget constraint in its organisation activities. This simultaneous equation model is then used as the basis for estimation of manual wages and union density for the private sector using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey.
ISSN:0013-0133
1468-0297
DOI:10.2307/2235495