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Unionization rates by Commuting Zone in the United States (ICPSR 108625)
Released/updated on: 2019-02-27
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 2000-01-01--2000-12-31
This is a computation of predicted unionization rates by 1990 Commuting Zones in the United States. The predictions are for the year 2000.
Issue: union status is available in the Current Population Survey (Outgoing Rotation Groups), but the CPS does not have county identifiers for the whole population, which are necessary to assign the CZ a CPS respondent lives in. Moreover, even with access to restricted CPS data files, the CPS is meant to be representative at the state level, so estimates at the CZ level may not be accurate.
Solution: use the CPS Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups (CPS MORG) from 2000 to estimate the probability of being unionized by state, sex, age group and 3-digit industry. Then, use the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) to get employment figures by county, sex, age group and 3-digit industry. Impute the estimated probability from the CPS MORG at the state, sex, age group and 3-digit industry. Assign each county to its CZ. Then compute weighted average of probability of being unionized by CZ, where employment counts are used as weights.
Curated
Simple Crosstabs
Union Centralization Among Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Study of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Countries, 1950-2000 (ICPSR 4541)
Released/updated on: 2018-05-16
Geographic coverage: United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal, Global, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Australia, France, Germany
Time period: 1950-01-01--2000-12-31
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.
Curated
Strikes and Labor Activity in France, 1830-1960 (ICPSR 8421)
Released/updated on: 2012-08-15
Geographic coverage: France, Global
Time period: 1830-01-01--1960-12-31
This study records the extent of unionization and the characteristics of strikes and labor disturbances in France from 1830 to 1960. Individual strikes and labor disturbances are separated by date, region (department), industry, cause, duration, outcome, and total involvement. The extent of unionization is recorded by department with numbers of employer organizations, worker organizations, mixed organizations containing both groups, and agricultural unions. Additional indicators list total membership for these categories, including the differentiation of female membership within union totals.
Curated
Simple Crosstabs
Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Spring 1974 (ICPSR 7523)
Released/updated on: 2006-05-04
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1974-01-01--1974-12-31
This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and buying plans. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, recession, price changes, and the national business situation. Additional questions probed respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, and the respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing a house. Other items elicited information on respondents' degree of satisfaction with the amount of money in their savings accounts, their assessments of their financial status relative to the previous year and to that of their parents at a comparable age, their views of government and government officials, government's role in improving the quality of life, future energy supply, and their feelings about their lives, satisfaction with life in the United States, and their income and jobs. Data were also collected on respondents' knowledge of current affairs, as well as their opinions of the relative merits of small cars and standard full-size cars and foreign and American cars, penalties for marijuana use, treatment by public officials, freedom to make public speeches against democracy, communism in the United States, the United States government's help to the South Vietnamese government, government support for the rights of Black people, racial desegregation, Black empowerment, causes of crime and lawlessness, monetary drive of lawyers and doctors, the state of the public good, and unionization of workers. Respondents also provided information on their car ownership and plans to buy a new one, political party identification, self-identified ideological position, political party candidate preference, the state of health of respondents' parents and the health care and physical assistance provided. Demographic variables describe respondents' age, sex, race, marital status, education, occupation, religion, employment status, and family income.
Curated
Did Right-to-Work Work for Idaho? (ICPSR 1265)
Released/updated on: 2003-04-25
Geographic coverage: United States, Idaho
The Idaho legislature passed a right-to-work law in 1986. Idaho provides an interesting case study for the effects of the law because it adopted the law during a period in which unionization had already declined substantially in the United States. This paper provides evidence on the industrial organization consequences of right-to-work laws by jointly examining the trends in Idaho's unionization rate and industrial performance before and after 1986, using neighboring states as controls. The authors find that unionization declined substantially starting a few years before the passage of the law, and this decline persisted thereafter. Furthermore, the post-law growth rates in manufacturing employment and the number of establishments far exceeded their pre-law counterparts. As a result, Idaho gradually became more like an average right-to-work law state in terms of its unionization rate and the employment share of manufacturing, diverging from the patterns exhibited by states without a right-to-work law.
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Union Representation Elections and the Role of the National Labor Relations Board (ICPSR 7625)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1972-02-01--1973-09-30
This data collection contains survey results based on personal interviews conducted with 1,239 workers who participated in union representation elections in the United States in 1972-1973. The purpose of the study was to test the validity of the assumptions made by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that employees are likely to attend to and be significantly influenced by the pre-election campaign in deciding whether or not to vote for union representation. These assumptions were the basis of many NLRB rules and regulations surrounding such elections. This study attempted to measure the actual effect of the pre-election campaign, particularly unlawful campaigning, on the employees' predisposition to vote for or against union representation. To that end, employees were interviewed in two waves, first to determine how employees intended to vote before the campaign began and then to measure how they ultimately voted. In Wave 1, workers were questioned about their pre-campaign sentiments about union representation. Employees were asked how they felt about their working conditions and about unions in general. They also were asked whether or not they had signed a union authorization card and how they would vote if the election were to be held the next day. In Wave 2, employees were asked to recall the content of the campaign and to disclose how they had voted and why, including any observations of pressures exerted by companies/employers or unions before and after the representation elections. Data collected about the respondents' demographic characteristics and job experience include age, sex, race, education level, political preferences, marital status, tenure, hours working (per week), wage rate (per hour), if previous union member, if voted in previous NLRB election, and if spouse, father, or mother were union members. The study and its objectives are laid out in Getman, Julius G., Stephen B. Goldberg, and Jeanne B. Herman. UNION REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS: LAW AND REALITY. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1976.