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Things Unions Do, Job Attributes, and Union Membership
Author(s) -
HUNDLEY GREG
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1989.tb00729.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , labour economics , demographic economics , economics , management
Implications of the governance and rent‐seeking models of unionism for the job characteristics‐union membership relationship are developed. Specific training and membership are found to be positively related, consistent with arguments that specific training governance. Membership is less likely on jobs requiring more general education—where incumbents typically see greater returns to individual mobility. Some support is found for job characteristics associated with efficiency gains to a collectivized employment relationship.