on workplace closure and employment growth over the period 1997-2004. Unions prolonged the life of low-wage workplaces in … Britain, whereas Norwegian unions increased (reduced) closure hazards in high (low) waged workplaces. Contrary to earlier … studies, unions had no effect on workplace growth in Britain. In Norway, union workplaces experienced 4 percent per annum …

unions face in the UK’s public services. While PRP and PM threaten the scope of traditional union bargaining activities, they … simultaneously offer a new role to unions as providers of ‘procedural justice services’ to both union members and employers. We … for such services from the teachers’ unions. Further, analysis of the PRP implementation process for classroom teachers …

companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent … with the idea that the incoming Labour government had a positive effect on the ability of unions to gain recognition …

, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled … wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features …

to negotiate wages and work conditions and for protection but do not see unions as helping them progress in their careers …. Workers with greater workplace needs are more desirous of unions but their preferences are fine-grained. Workers want unions …. Many workers see no major workplace problems that would impel them to form or join unions. Unionism raises reported …