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Do economic conditions influence union activism behaviour?
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-11, 16:48 authored by David Angrave, Andy Charlwood, Ian GreenwoodThis article develops and tests the theory that union activism is related to economic conditions using a nationally representative panel of workers from the UK. Results suggest that a fall in real wages of two percentage points and a three percentage point increase in the unemployment rate are both associated with a one tenth increase in the probability that a ‘benchmark’ worker will become a union activist (albeit from a low base). This relationship is largely explained by the behaviour of workers in highly unionised sectors.
Funding
The BHPS data used in this article were collected by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and were made available through the ESRC Data Archive (both at the University of Essex).
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Economic and Industrial Democracy: an international journalVolume
38Issue
2Pages
344 - 369Citation
ANGRAVE, D., CHARLWOOD, A. and GREENWOOD, I., 2017. Do economic conditions influence union activism behaviour? Economic and Industrial Democracy, 38(2), pp.344-369.Publisher
SAGE Publications / © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015-03-12Notes
This is the accepted version of a paper subsequently published in the journal, Economic and Industrial Democracy. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X15571641ISSN
1461-7099Publisher version
Language
- en