Dual commitment: unique construct or epiphenomenon?

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Research on dual commitment has been criticized for failing to establish that dual commitment is a unique construct with significant exploratory power beyond that of employer commitment and union commitment. Using data for a sample of shop stewards, this analysis shows that dual commitment does have unique predictive power for steward grievance processing behaviors and grievance procedure outcomes. Consequently, models relating employer commitment (in unionized settings) or union commitment to behaviors or outcomes will be misspecified if they do not include dual commitment as a unique construct, and statistical estimates of these models will be subject to specification bias. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Employee loyalty, Commitment (Psychology), Grievance procedures

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The changing determinants of U.S. unionism: an analysis using worker-level data

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In contrast to much of the literature examining the decline of trade unions in the United States, I examine the decline from the perspective of the individual employee. Worker-level data combined with industry-level data for the years 1972 and 1987 are used to investigate the decline. The central findings are that the changing sex and race composition of the labor force and increases in management resistance have had little influence, while gains in educational levels, changing occupations, and reductions in the economies of scale of union organizing have contributed greatly to the decline. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

United States, Labor relations

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The effect of unions on professors' salaries: the evidence over twenty years

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No study has recently examined how unions affect professors' salaries. In the only studies using micro-level data, both Ashraf (1992) and Barbezat (1989) used data from 1977. I update earlier work by using data from 1988. In conjunction with data from 1969 and 1977, the effect of faculty unions over a twenty-year period is examined. While faculty at unionized colleges earned significantly less than their counterparts at nonunion institutions in 1969, they earned marginally more in 1977 and 1988. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Compensation and benefits, College teachers, College faculty

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