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| Title: | | Union decline in Britain: Is chauvinism also to blame?  |
| Authors: | | Haile, Getinet Astatike |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6536 |
| Abstract: | | The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators it reports an inverse relationship between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse relationship to be stronger for male union members and those in the private sector. Gender group size based analysis reveals a positive link between workplace union density and gender diversity in workplaces with a female majority. The findings in this paper may mean that unions (and their main constituents, men) may need to embrace the changing workplace demography genuinely to improve their fate. |
| Subjects: | | trade union decline gender diversity linked employer-employee data Britain |
| JEL: | | J51 J16 J82 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201208174805 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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