Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Patrice Laroche

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Using nationally representative workplace surveys we examine the relationship between unionization and workplace financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain and that this effect is larger when unionization is endogenized. In France, union bargaining is associated with poorer workplace performance but the effect disappears once unionization is treated as endogenous. However, high levels of union density do have a negative impact on workplace performance in France. In Britain the union effect does not rise with union density.

Keywords: Trade union; firm performance; France; Britain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J51 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eec, nep-lab and nep-ltv
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