| Sumario: | Part of a special section, the fourth part of a series, on what unions do. The writers review Richard Freeman and James Medoff's exit-voice hypothesis, which holds that union members' greater politicization accounts for the fact that they express less job satisfaction than nonunion workers but remain in their jobs nonetheless. They discuss the lack of evidence in support of the exit-voice hypothesis, given their finding that the majority of the variance in the negative union effect on job satisfaction is attributable to job quality, industrial relation climate, and wages. They contemplate the theoretical and practical implications of their results.
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