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dc.contributor.authorPencavel, John H.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:11:19Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:11:19Z-
dc.date.issued2003-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20063-
dc.description.abstractAfter expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less consequence in accounting for the decline of unionism than the withdrawal of the state?s indirect support for collective bargaining. The principal goal of the reforms was to boost productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990s. Private sector unionism has become highlydecentralized which renders it vulnerable to the vagaries of market forces.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x818en
dc.subject.jelJ5en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordunionsen
dc.subject.keywordBritainen
dc.subject.stwGewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgraden
dc.subject.stwGewerkschaften
dc.subject.stwGewerkschaftspolitiken
dc.subject.stwTarifpolitiken
dc.subject.stwProduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.titleThe Surprising Retreat of Union Britain-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn367345048en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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