Union Membership Statistics in 24 Countries

By Jelle Visser. 2006

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Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers (2014, background): “Public-sector unionization is high (Visser, 2006), and public-sector unions are strong and active politically (DiSalvo, 2010).”
From Typology to Taxonomy: A Configurational Analysis of National Business Systems and their Explanatory Power (2014, methodology): “To capture the strength of independent trade unions, I follow previous work and use the uniondensity scale included in the ICTWSS database (see Visser, 2006).”
The Public Sector Pay Gap in a Selection of Euro Area Countries (2011, unknown): “Source: Eurostat.”
Varieties of new public management or alternative models? The reform of public service employment relations in industrialized democracies (2011, background): “Irrespective of its origins, in a labour-intensive sector with high union density (Visser 2006 ), these reforms had major implications for employment relations, HRM practice and the role of trade unions.”
It’s All about Control (2012, background): “Lyness et al. 1031 Union coverage refers to the percentage of workers covered by collective bargaining agreements, which is a better measure than union membership for capturing unions’ power to affect working conditions (Visser 2006).”
Understanding unequal turnout: Education and voting in comparative perspective (2010, methodology): “The data was collected from Cohen et al. (2003), Visser (2006); and http://eurofound. europa.eu.”
The missing link: knowledge diffusion and entrepreneurship in endogenous growth (2010, background): “Researchers (R&D) Total number of researchers, full-time equivalent OECD, Statistical Compendium on CD, 2004-2 Trade union density (TUD) Share of labor force that is unionized Visser (2006), Schnabel and Wagner (2003), OECD Labour Market Statistics”
Union membership and density: Some (not so) stylized facts and challenges (2013, background): “This suggests that among advanced countries there is no convergence (rather some divergence) in union density over time.”
The CEP-OECD institutions data set (1960-2004) (2006, background): “Survey data appears in red. udnet_vis (%): This series takes udnet and extends it by splicing in data from Visser (2006).”
Labor Market Institutions Around the World (2007, unknown): “In 2000, the five most unionized countries had an average density of 66.2% while the five least unionized countries had a density of 12.5%, giving a ratio of 5.3 to 1.0 (data from Visser, 2006).”