Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome The Free-Rider Problem
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- Richard Murphy, 2020. "Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome the Free-Rider Problem," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 38(4), pages 1141-1188.
- Murphy, Richard, 2019. "Why unions survive: understanding how unions overcome the free-rider problem," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102809, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
- J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IAS-2019-07-15 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2019-07-15 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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