International Patterns of Union Membership

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The erosion of union membership in Germany: determinants, densities, decompositions (2006, unknown): “In line with the evidence in Blanchflower (2007), an inverted U-shape relationship is expected.”
UK Unemployment in the Great Recession (2010, methodology): “The fear of becoming unemployed in the future lowers a person’s subjective wellbeing (Di Tella et al., 2001, 2003; Blanchflower, 2007; Knabe and Rätzel, 2008).”
Young People and the Great Recession (2011, methodology): “Blanchflower (2007) shows, using data from the UK Labour Force Survey, that union density rates for 16-19 year olds in 2004 were 4.3%.”
Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy? (2008, methodology): “According to the literature, sector-specific union membership rates are positively correlated across a wide set of industrialized countries (see Riley 1997, Blanchflower 2007) (first stage).”
Union membership and density: Some (not so) stylized facts and challenges (2013, background): “Notes: 1 2009, 2 2008 Source: ICTWSS Database, version 3, 2011; own calculations Source: ICTWSS Database, version 3, 2011; own calculations”