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unionDensity

cross national rates of trade union density


Description

Cross-national data on relative size of the trade unions and predictors, in 20 countries. Two of the predictors are highly collinear, and are the source of a debate between Stephens and Wallerstein (1991), later reviewed by Western and Jackman (1994).

Usage

data(unionDensity)

Format

  • unionnumeric, percentage of the total number of wage and salary earners plus the unemployed who are union members, measured between 1975 and 1980, with most of the data drawn from 1979

  • leftnumeric, an index tapping the extent to which parties of the left have controlled governments since 1919, due to Wilensky (1981).

  • sizenumeric, log of labor force size, defined as the number of wage and salary earners, plus the unemployed

  • concennumeric, percentage of employment, shipments, or production accounted for by the four largest enterprises in a particular industry, averaged over industries (with weights proportional to the size of the industry) and the resulting measure is normalized such that the United States scores a 1.0, and is due to Pryor (1973). Some of the scores on this variable are imputed using procedures described in Stephens and Wallerstein (1991, 945).

Source

Pryor, Frederic. 1973. Property and Industrial Organization in Communist and Capitalist Countries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Stephens, John and Michael Wallerstein. 1991. Industrial Concentration, Country Size and Trade Union Membership. American Political Science Review 85:941-953.

Western, Bruce and Simon Jackman. 1994. Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research. American Political Science Review 88:412-423.

Wilensky, Harold L. 1981. Leftism, Catholicism, Democratic Corporatism: The Role of Political Parties in Recent Welfare State Development. In The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America, ed. Peter Flora and Arnold J. Heidenheimer. New Brunswick: Transaction Books.

References

Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Hoboken, New Jersey.

Examples

data(unionDensity)
summary(unionDensity)
pairs(unionDensity,
      labels=c("Union\nDensity",
        "Left\nGovernment",
        "log Size of\nLabor Force",
        "Economic\nConcentration"),
      lower.panel=function(x,y,digits=2){
        r <- cor(x,y)
        par(usr=c(0,1,0,1))
        text(.5,.5,
             format(c(r,0.123456789),digits=digits)[1],
             cex=1.5)
      }
      )
ols <- lm(union ~ left + size + concen,
          data=unionDensity)
summary(ols)

pscl

Political Science Computational Laboratory

v1.5.5
GPL-2
Authors
Simon Jackman, with contributions from Alex Tahk, Achim Zeileis, Christina Maimone, Jim Fearon and Zoe Meers
Initial release
2020-02-25

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