Unions, Within-Workplace Job Cuts and Job Security Guarantees

Alex Bryson and Michael White

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Using data from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 1998, this paper shows that unionisation increased the probability of within-workplace job cuts and the incidence of job security guarantees. As theory predicts, both are more prevalent among market-sector workplaces with higher union density and multi-unionism. Expectations that these effects would be more muted in the public sector were also confirmed.

Keywords: Job cuts; trade unions; job guarantees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J45 J51 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07
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