Union Centralization Among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Countries, 1950-2000 (ICPSR 4541)
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Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles;
Michael Wallerstein, University of California, Los Angeles, Northwestern University, and Yale University;
Peter Lange, Duke University
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04541.v2
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The purpose of this study was to collect and code data on union organizations, employers, and labor market institutions in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in the postwar era. The data include information on union membership, density, and concentration, as well as on the centralization of bargaining in 20 OECD nations between 1950 and 2000. Countries included are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The file includes information about confederal and governmental involvement in wage-setting and union concentrations, as well as authority data and affiliate authority data about union associations and employer associations. Other key variables include adjusted and unadjusted coverage rate, total union density, net union density, and names of union members.
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country
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Union organizations, employers, and labor market institutions in OECD countries.
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2006-08-30
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2018-05-16 The collection has been updated to include new data files.
2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:- Golden, Miriam, Michael Wallerstein, and Peter Lange. Union Centralization Among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Countries, 1950-2000. ICPSR04541-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-05-16. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04541.v2
2006-08-30 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?