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Worker Sorting and Job Satisfaction : The Case of Union and Government Jobs

Heywood, John S.; Siebert, Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong - 2002

In initial cross-section estimates using data from the 1991-94 British Household Panel Study, the authors find that union members had lower overall job satisfaction than non-union members, and public sector workers had higher satisfaction than private sector workers. Controlling for individual...

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Unions and Plant Closings in Britain : New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS

Addison, John T.; Heywood, John S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2021

In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to both recent U.S. research and British work using information from the earlier workplace surveys, we...

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Immigrants and Trade Union Membership : Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?

Bedaso, Fenet; Jirjahn, Uwe; Goerke, Laszlo - 2022

-generation immigrants in Germany. Importantly, the analysis shows that the immigrant-native gap in union membership indeed depends on … in Germany …

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Immigrants and trade union membership : does integration into society and workplace play a moderating role?

Bedaso, Fenet Jima; Jirjahn, Uwe - In: British journal of industrial relations : BJIR ; an … 62 (2024) 2, pp. 262-292

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Collective bargaining structure and its determinants: an empirical analysis with British and German establishment data

Schnabel, Claus; Zagelmeyer, Stefan; Kohaut, Susanne - 2005

firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both …-employer collective bargaining clearly dominates in Germany. Econometric analyses show that more or less the same set of variables play a …

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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation: transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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Slip sliding away: further union decline in Germany and Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2010

changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …

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German Works Councils in the Production Process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

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Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …

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