The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … paper may mean that unions (and their main constituents, men) may need to embrace the changing workplace demography …

sector union wage premium disappears, indicating that individuals positively select into unions. In contrast, the public … continuing strength of public sector unions. Once we control for endogeneity, the membership premium is nowhere significant …

unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …

The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …

The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk …-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in minimising risk, membership should have been boosted … results obtained suggest that men have been deserting unions and that there is an inverse link between membership and the …