An Institutional Approach to Trade Unions’ Density. The Case of Legal Origin and Political Ideology

Jacek Lewkowicz and Anna Lewczuk ()

No 2017-06, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: Which institutions may be important in terms of trade unions’ density and how significant they are? However, trade unions’ status is very different among states, they are still a very meaningful component of labor markets. In this paper we contribute to the debate on the institutions, which may affect the outcome of trade unions in different legal systems. Firstly, we draw on theoretical underpinnings of trade unions’ activity and density. Then, we conduct an empirical analysis of the relationships between trade union density in a particular country, its legal origin and government’s ideology. In this way the paper enriches an underexploited niche in institutional research devoted to labor market issues.

Keywords: new institutional economics; institutions; political economy; trade unions; labor market; legal origin; parties’ ideologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J51 K31 K40 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2017
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