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International Variation in Collective Bargaining Coverage
The extent to which a country's workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements varies significantly across the globe. For example, in some northern European countries and Italy, nearly all workers are covered by such agreements, whereas in the United States and South Korea, the proportion is very small.
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