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The Ebbinghaus data frame has 13 rows and 10 columns.
During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to the social, economic and political changes. This article reviews the main structural, cyclical and institutional factors explaining union growth and decline. Concentrating on Western Europe, the empirical analysis compares cross-national union density data for 13 countries over the first period (1950-75) and for 16 countries over the second, ''crisis'' period (1975-95)
data(Ebbinghaus)
The dataset contains the following columns:
OUT | union decline (outcome variable) |
GHENT | country with ''Ghent-system'' (union led unemployment insurance) |
WORKACCESS | workplace access for unions |
NEOCORP | neo-corporatist institutionalization of unions |
CLOSHOP | ''closed-shop'' tradition |
SOCDEM | government participation of Social-Democratic / Socialist party |
INDUS | share of industry in dependent unemployment |
PUBLIC | share of public sector development employment |
UNEMPL | average unemployment rate |
INFLA | average inflation rate |
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard and Visser, Jelle 2000 Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945. In Flora, P. and Rothenbacher, Kraus F. (eds.) The Societies of Europe Series, London: Macmillan Reference / Palgrave, March 2000 / New York: Grove's Dictionaries / Palgrave, July 2000 [xxii, 808 pp. and CD-ROM]