Modelling Trade Union Membership: Open Shops and Private Goods

Kevin Denny

Working Papers from College Dublin, Department of Political Economy-

Abstract: This paper discusses the question of trade union membership. Where membership is not compulsory workers have an incentive to free-ride if the unions only provide collective goods such as wage bargaining.

Keywords: TRADE; UNIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:dublec:97/14

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from College Dublin, Department of Political Economy- Ireland; University College Dublin, Department of Political Economy, Centre for Economic Research, Belfield, Dublin 4. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thomas Krichel ().