TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Richard
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome The Free-Rider Problem 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - June 2019; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper provides evidence for why individuals join unions instead of free-riding. I model membership as legal insurance. To test the model, I use the incidence of news stories concerning allegations against teachers in the UK as a plausibly exogenous shock to demand for such insurance. I find that, for every five stories occurring in a region, teachers are 2.2 percentage points more likely to be members in the subsequent year. These effects are larger when teachers share characteristics with the news story and can explain 45 percent of the growth in teacher union membership between 1992 and 2010
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w25924
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25924
ER  -