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The wage impact of trade unions in the UK public and private sectors

Blanchflower, David G. and Bryson, Alex (2010) The wage impact of trade unions in the UK public and private sectors. Economica, 77 (305). pp. 92-109. ISSN 0013-0427

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Identification Number: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00726.x

Abstract

There is a growing gap in the union membership wage premium between public and private-sector workers in the United Kingdom. Using the Labour Force Surveys of 1993–2006, the gap between the membership premium in the public and private sectors closes with the addition of three-digit occupational controls, although significant wage premia remain in both sectors. However, using the Workplace Employment Relations Survey of 2004, the public-sector union membership wage premium remains roughly twice the size of the private-sector membership premium, having accounted for workplace fixed effects and workers’ occupations, job characteristics, qualifications and demographics.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1185094...
Additional Information: © 2008 The London School of Economics and Political Science
Divisions: Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
JEL classification: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining > J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Date Deposited: 13 May 2009 10:29
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2024 07:48
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/23917

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