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Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction

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dc.creator Bryson, Alex
dc.creator Cappellari, Lorenzo
dc.creator Lucifora, Claudio
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:01:20Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:01:20Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18783
dc.identifier ppn:484551078
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18783
dc.description We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association between membership and satisfaction only emerges where there is a union recognised for bargaining, and that such an effect vanishes when the simultaneous selection into membership and recognition is taken into account. We also show that ignoring endogenous recognition would lead to conclude that membership has a positive effect on satisfaction. Our estimates indicate that the unobserved factors that lead to sorting across workplaces are negatively related to the ones determining membership and positively related with those generating satisfaction, a result that we interpret as being consistent with the existence of queues for union jobs.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1419
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J28
dc.subject J51
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject job satisfaction
dc.subject union membership
dc.subject union recognition
dc.subject endogeneity
dc.subject Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad
dc.subject Arbeitszufriedenheit
dc.subject Grossbritannien
dc.title Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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