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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Disney, Richard - 1994

The authors analyze establishment-level data from the three Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984 and 1990 to document and explain the sharp decline in unionization that occurred in Britain over the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1990 the proportion of British establishments which...

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Structural Changes in Unionization : 1973-1981

Dickens, William T. - 1986

This paper presents a decomposition of the decline in union density into structural and within sector components using CPS data for private sector workers. We find that 58 to 68 percent of the decline in private sector unionization between 1973 and 1981 can be accounted for by structural changes...

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The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success

Freeman, Richard B. - 1985

This paper argues that under current U.S. institutional arrangements, in which managements opposition to unions is as important as workers and unions,the magnitude of the union wage premium actually reduces organization rather than increasing it. It reduces organizing success by lowering...

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The Impact of Industrial Relations Legislation on British Union Density

Freeman, Richard - 1989

The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s density rose steadily, making the United Kingdom the most heavily organized large OECD country. In the 1980s, by contrast, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a...

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The Impact Of New Unionization On Wages And Working Conditions : A Longitudinal Study Of Establishments Under NLRB Elections

Freeman, Richard B. - 1988

This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...

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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1992

In this paper I examine the evolution of labor relations institutions during the initial phase of marketization in Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market economy. I find surprising stability in labor institutions...

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Standard-Rate Wage Setting, Labor Quality, and Unions

Brown, Charles - 1985

-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and those who work for large employers.This paper … distributions of alternative wages for workers, it pushes employers toward the middle of the quality distribution. Second, union … employers are free to alter the quality of their workforces …

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Unionism Comes to the Public Sector

Freeman, Richard B. - 1984

This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability to shift demand curves rather than to raise wages, as is the case in the private sector. It reviews the public sector labor relations literature and finds that: (i) public...

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Union Wage Settlements During a Disinflation

Taylor, John B. - 1982

This paper examines the role of union wage contracts in the persistence of inflation, and the implication of these contracts for the problem of disinflation in the United States. A quantitative model of overlapping con- tracts explicitly oriented toward the major union sector is developed. The...

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The Impact of Collective Bargaining : Can the New Facts Be Explained by Monopoly Unionism?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1982

In this paper we focus our attention on the question of whether union/nonunion differences in nonwage outcomes can, in fact, be explained in terms of standard price-theoretic responses to real wage effects, as opposed to the real effect of unionism on economic behavior. We reach three basic...

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