unionDensityR Documentation

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

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)