Employee voice: additional data

Lane Kenworthy, The Good Society
July 2022

PRIVATE-SECTOR AND PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONIZATION

The following charts show the share of employees in the private sector (solid lines) and the public sector (dashed lines) who are a member of a labor union in each of the rich democratic countries.

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Figure A1. Unionization in the private sector and the public sector
Solid lines: private sector. Dashed lines: Public sector. Share of employees who are a member of a labor union. Data source: Jelle Visser, “ICTWSS: Database on Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention, and Social Pacts,” version 6.0, 2019, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, series ud_private, ud_s_private, ud_public, ud_s_public. There are no available data for Ireland, Italy, Korea (South), Portugal, and Switzerland.