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UK trades unions and the problems of collective action

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. First order problems refer to the problems of … initiating collective action and second order problems refer to the management of collective action organisations. Unions are … presented to illustrate the cost disease problem and to suggest options for its management. …

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Explaining cross-national variation in workplace employee representation

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; George, Anitha - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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Worker representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.

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Do public subsidies of union membership increase union membership rates?

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation of the union good increases union take-up, while increased union fees reduce the demand for...

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Gender differences in the union wage premium? : a comparative case study

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Nergaard, Kristine - 2016

Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. Adopting a comparative case study approach using nationally representative linked employer-employee...

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Creative destruction, social security uptake and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2019

Does the creative destruction induced by unions entail increased social security uptake? Creative destruction implies the closures of less productive workplaces, and if the regional benefits from this process is not large enough, the displacements caused by workplace closures cause increased...

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Wages, creative destruction, and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

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State substitution for the trade union good : the case of paid holiday entitlements

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

The literature on the union wage premium is among the most extensive in labour economics but unions' effects on other aspects of the wage-effort bargain have received much less attention. We contribute to the literature through a study of the union premium in paid holiday entitlements, using...

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...

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