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Accounting for collective action: resource acquisition and mobilization in British unions

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist on the one hand in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts and, on the other, establishment level resources provided by employers and...

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Union organization in Great Britain

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Union membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, measured by employer recognition, has shrunk. Membership decline has been...

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Why have workers stopped joining unions? Accounting for the rise in never-membership in Britain

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (‘never-members’) since the early 1980s and shows that it is the reduced likelihood of ever becoming a member rather than the haemorrhaging of existing members which is behind the decline in overall...

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Why have workers stopped joining unions?

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (¿nevermembers¿) since the early 1980s and shows that it is the reduced likelihood of ever becoming a member rather than the haemorrhaging of existing members which is behind the decline in overall...

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Knowing what is good for you: empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

between these two in the case of basic needs. For the analysis, individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction is used as a … social relations – significantly influence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferences is … between life satisfaction and basic measures of well-being despite the landslide of societal and economic transformation. …

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What can local authorities do to improve the social care-related quality of life of older adults living at home?: evidence from the adult social care survey

van Leeuwen, K.M.; Malley, J.; Bosmans, J.E.; Jansen, A.P.D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Local authorities spend considerable resources on social care at home for older adults. Given the expected growth in the population of older adults and budget cuts on local government, it is important to find efficient ways of maintaining and improving the quality of life of older adults. The...

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One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of …

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Union free-riding in Britain and New Zealand

Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their workplace has been rising in Britain and New Zealand. Social custom, union instrumentality, the fixed costs of joining, employee perceptions of management attitudes to unionization and employee problems at work...

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an …

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Does union membership really reduce job satisfaction?

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. Whilst it is common to study the effects of union … status on satisfaction treating individual membership as given, in this paper, we account for the endogenous selection … Employee Relations Survey, we address the question of how the membership decision is related to overall job satisfaction and to …

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