Ebbinghaus                package:QCA                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The *Ebbinghaus* data frame has 13 rows and 10 columns.

     During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements
     grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in
     industrial relations and politics. However, during the last
     decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as
     they came increasingly under pressures due to the social, economic
     and political changes. This article reviews the main structural,
     cyclical and institutional factors explaining union growth and
     decline. Concentrating on Western Europe, the empirical analysis
     compares cross-national union density data for 13 countries over
     the first period (1950-75) and for 16 countries over the second,
     ''crisis'' period (1975-95)

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Ebbinghaus)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The dataset contains the following columns:

       OUT         union decline (outcome variable)
       GHENT       country with ''Ghent-system'' (union led unemployment insurance)
       WORKACCESS  workplace access for unions
       NEOCORP     neo-corporatist institutionalization of unions
       CLOSHOP     ''closed-shop'' tradition
       SOCDEM      government participation of Social-Democratic / Socialist party
       INDUS       share of industry in dependent unemployment
       PUBLIC      share of public sector development employment
       UNEMPL      average unemployment rate
       INFLA       average inflation rate

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     <URL: http://www.compasss.org>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Ebbinghaus, Bernhard and Visser, Jelle 2000 _Trade Unions in
     Western Europe since 1945_. In Flora, P. and Rothenbacher, Kraus
     F. (eds.) The Societies of Europe Series, London: Macmillan
     Reference / Palgrave, March 2000 / New York: Grove's Dictionaries
     / Palgrave, July 2000 [xxii, 808 pp. and CD-ROM]

