Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35112 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3436
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Trade unions
wages
employment growth
financial performance
JEL: 
J51
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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