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Not So Dissatisfied After All? The Impact of Union Coverage on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

The links between unionisation and job satisfaction remain controversial. In keeping with the existing literature we … find strong statistically significant negative correlations between unionisation and overall job satisfaction. However, in … uncovered employees, union coverage is positively and significantly associated with satisfaction with pay and hours of work …

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Union Organization in Great Britain

Bryson, Alex; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, 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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Accounting for Collective Action: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization in British Unions

Bryson, Alex; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, 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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Why Have Workers Stopped Joining Unions?

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - Centre for Economic Performance, 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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Segmentation, Switching Costs and the Demand for Unionization in Britain

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper explains why some employees who favor unionization fail to join, and why others who wish to abandon union membership continue paying dues. Our explanation is based on a model where employees incur switching (search) costs when attempting to abandon (acquire) union membership....

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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting …

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Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Laroche, Patrice - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is...

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Union Free-Riding in Britain and New Zealand

Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, 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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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...

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Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction

Barmby, Tim; Bryson, Alex; Eberth, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows …

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