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Comparatively Open: Statutory Information Disclosure for Consultation and Bargaining in Germany, France and the UK

Gospel, Howard; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Information provision is an important part of all mechanisms which give employees voice atwork. This paper considers the law on information disclosure for joint consultation andcollective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France, and the UK, chosen for theirdistinctive legal and...

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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 contrast to the previous literature we find that once...

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Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionisation: Are American, British, and Canadian Workers All That Different?

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley; Meltz, Noah - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper examines demand for union membership amongst young workers in Britain, Canada and the United States. The paper benchmarks youth demands for collective representation against those of adult workers and finds that a large and significant representation gap exists in all three countries....

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Unions, Performance-Related Pay and Procedural Justice: the Case of Classroom Teachers

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Performance-related pay (PRP) and performance management (PM) are now a part of the organizationallandscape that unions … simultaneously offer a new role to unions as providers of 'procedural justiceservices' to both union members and employers. We … for such services fromthe teachers' unions. Further, analysis of the PRP implementation process for classroom teachers …

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What Do Unions Do to Executive Compensation?

Gomez, Rafael; Tzioumis, Konstantinos - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We estimate the relation between union presence and executive compensation using a unique panel of executives in publicly listed US firms during the period 1992-2001. We find evidence that union presence is associated with lower levels of total executive compensation. We find this union effect...

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New Survey Evidence on Recent Changes in UK Union Recognition

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

with the idea that the incoming Labour government had a positive effect on the ability of unions to gain recognition …

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Catching a Wave: the Adoption of Voice and High Commitment Workplace Practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...

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A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

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 …

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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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