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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2008

This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...

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Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy

Goerke, Laszlo - 2001

In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women: Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK: with or against the trade unions?

Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009

A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain...

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Heterogeneity in union status and employee well-being

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael J. - 2012

This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one's own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...

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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....

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The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain

Pencavel, John H. - 2003

After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less consequence in accounting for the decline of unionism than the withdrawal of the state?s indirect support for...

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Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

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