Unionism and Employment Behaviour

David Blanchflower, Neil Millward and Andrew Oswald

Economic Journal, 1991, vol. 101, issue 407, 815-34

Abstract: Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data on establishments to examine the employment consequences of unionism. This paper addresses this issue with a recent British data set and shows that, even after the addition of a substantial set of control variables, there is a strong association between poor employment performance and the presence of trade unions. The union employment growth differential is estimated at approximately -3 percent per annum. Copyright 1991 by Royal Economic Society.

Date: 1991
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