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CEP discussion paper
Not so dissatisfied after all? The impact of union coverage on job satisfaction

The links between unionisation and job satisfaction remain controversial. In keeping with the existing literature we find strong statistically significant negative correlations between unionisation and overall job satisf...Read more...

Alex Bryson and Michael White

4 June 2014

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a 21st Century Context

Union membership has declined precipitously in the US over the past 40 years. Can anything be done to stem this decline? This paper argues that union voice is an attribute (among others) of union membership that is exper...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

April 2008

CEP discussion paper
Union Organization in Great Britain

Union membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, mea...Read more...

Alex Bryson and P Willman

January 2007

CEP discussion paper
Accounting for Collective Action: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization in British Unions

The paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist on the one hand in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts ...Read more...

Alex Bryson and P Willman

December 2006

CEP discussion paper
Chinese Unions: Nugatory or Transforming? An 'Alice' Analysis

China has, apparently, more trade union members than the rest of the world put together. But the unions do not function in the same way as western trade unions. In particular Chinese unions are subservient to the Partyst...Read more...

Jianwei Li and David Metcalf

December 2005

CEP discussion paper
The Union Wage Premium in the US and the UK

This paper presents evidence of both counter-cyclical and secular decline in the union membership wage premiu m in the US and the UK over the last couple of decades. The premium has fallen for most groups of workers, the...Read more...

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

February 2004

CEP discussion paper
Why Have Workers Stopped Joining Unions?

This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (?nevermembers?) since the early 1980s and shows that it is the reduced likelihood of ever becoming a member rather than the h...Read more...

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

November 2003

CEP discussion paper
Segmentation, Switching Costs and the Demand for Unionization in Britain

This paper explains why some employees who favor unionization fail to join, and why others who wish to abandon union membership continue paying dues. Our explanation is based on a model where employees incur switching (s...Read more...

Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

May 2003