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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

We examine the relationship between union membership and job satisfaction over the life-course using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) tracking all those born in Great Britain in a single week in March in 1958 through to age 55 (2013). Data from immigrants as well as...

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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-Being

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Using data from the United States and Europe on nearly two million respondents we show the partial correlation between union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in the seminal work of Freeman (1978) and Borjas (1979)...

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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in the UK and the Us Revisited

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2021

declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other …, are also able to raise wages by significant amounts. In countries where union wage settlements frequently spill over into … the non-union sector (e.g. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden) there is no significant union wage …

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