naa a22 4500 510740197 CHVBK 20180411083025.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12122-012-9156-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12122-012-9156-7 Interstate Variations in Private Sector Union Density in the U.S [Elektronische Daten] [Behroz Baraghoshi, Cihan Bilginsoy] This paper uses union density variations across state and state-industry cells in 1985, 1995, and 2005 to examine the factors that contributed to the decline in private sector unionization in the U.S. In addition to the conventional variables, it develops two measures to gauge the effects of union-management strife. Estimations indicate that union density varied directly with union organizing efforts and inversely with the employer opposition to unionization. Decomposition analysis reveals, however, that these variables do not explain why union density declined because changes in their marginal effects were favorable to unionization. Declining union density instead is attributable mostly to the shift factors subsumed under the intercept term over 1985-1995, and shift factors cum negative changes in sensitivity of unionization to workforce characteristics over 1995-2005. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2012 Interstate union density nationallicence Private sector nationallicence Employer-union conflict nationallicence Oaxaca decomposition nationallicence Baraghoshi Behroz Department of Economics, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, 06226, Willimantic, CT, USA aut Bilginsoy Cihan Department of Economics, University of Utah, 260 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 343, 84112-9150, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut Journal of Labor Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/2(2013-06-01), 180-202 0195-3613 34:2<180 2013 34 12122 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-012-9156-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-012-9156-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baraghoshi Behroz Department of Economics, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, 06226, Willimantic, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bilginsoy Cihan Department of Economics, University of Utah, 260 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 343, 84112-9150, Salt Lake City, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Labor Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/2(2013-06-01), 180-202 0195-3613 34:2<180 2013 34 12122 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer