The Impact of Union Corruption on Union Membership

Christopher Coombs () and Richard Cebula ()

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Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between union corruption actions and union membership. State-level data from the Office of Labor-Management Standards, and other sources, are utilized over two study periods (1974-2000 and 2001- 2008) to test three hypotheses, including the union corruption hypothesis, as pos­sible explanations for the decline in union membership in the United States over time. Although our initial findings suggest a negative relationship exists between union corruption and membership, after removing the possibility of simultaneous equations bias, we find that changes in corruption do not influence changes in union membership in our sample.

Keywords: union membership. union corruption; decline in union membership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J47 J51 J58 J59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11-27
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Published in Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society 1.50(2011): pp. 131-148

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