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The persistence of union membership within the coalfields of Britain

Beynon, Huw; Blakely, Helen; Bryson, Alex; Davies, Rhys - 2020

Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...

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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Unions in Brazil : what to expect in the near future?

Campos, André Gambier - 2016

Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …

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Wages, creative destruction, and union networks

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018

Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...

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Union wage effects : what are the economic implications of union wage bargaining for workers, firms, and society

Bryson, Alex - 2014

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet...

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Union density, productivity and wages

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2017

We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in union density lead to substantial increases in firm...

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Foreign ownership and its effects on employment and wages : the case of Sweden

Brännlund, Runar; Nordström, Jonas; Stage, Jesper; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-17

In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects, we specify a model based on the assumption that the Swedish labour market can be described as one where trade unions and employers bargain over employment and wages. Our...

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Unionizing Subcontracted Labor

Shamir, Hila - 2018

Subcontracting — the practice of using intermediaries to contract workers, whether through temp agencies, manpower agencies, franchise, or other multilayered contracting — is an increasingly popular pattern of employment worldwide. Whether justified from a business perspective or not,...

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Worker Participation in Unions in Argentina : Main Determining Factors and Trends

Delfini, Marcelo; Erbes, Analía; Roitter, Sonia - 2011

The crisis in union representation is one of the most relevant labour-related issues of the last thirty years. Studies about union representation usually consider unionization to be central to the evaluation of this crisis. However, this analysis can be deepened by incorporating other elements...

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Attitudes Towards Faculty Unions and Collective Bargaining in American and Canadian Universities

Katchanovski, Ivan; Rothman, Stanley; Nevitte, Neil - 2014

This study analyzes attitudes towards faculty unions and collective bargaining among faculty and administrators in the United States and Canada. This is the first study which compares support for unionization and collective bargaining in American and Canadian universities among faculty members...

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