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Cross‐national differences in trade union membership in OECD countries
Author(s) -
Bean Ron,
Holden Ken
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1992.tb00557.x
Subject(s) - centralisation , collective bargaining , trade union , left wing politics , wage , union density , government (linguistics) , public sector , economics , labour economics , international economics , demographic economics , political science , politics , market economy , economy , linguistics , philosophy , law
This article examines how trade union membership varies across 16 OECD countries in the 1980s. Higher density of membership is found to be associated with a higher degree of centralisation of wage bargaining, higher percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining, a larger public sector and a more leftist party of government.