Union decline in Britain

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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 employment growth and financial performance are largely confined to the 1980s. Managerial perceptions of the climate of relations between managers and workers have deteriorated since the early 1980s across the whole private sector, whether the workplace is unionised or not.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3436

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
• Subject: Trade unions ; wages ; employment growth ; financial performance ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Gewerkschaftsbewegung ; Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad ; Arbeitskonflikt ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Lohnverhandlungen ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Blanchflower, David G. ; Bryson, Alex
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35112
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008041401
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET