Plant closures and unionization in British establishments
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The UK Workplace Industrial Relations Survey has been used to provide data to study a link between plant closures and the presence of labor unions. This allows an examination of the notion that labor unions can cause problems for companies that lead them to be shut down. There does not appear to be a strong link between closures and labor unions and it may be that plants without labor unions are more likely to close. Labor unions thus do not appear to harm firms, and plant closures do not explain why labor unions have declined.
Publication Name: British Journal of Industrial Relations
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0007-1080
Year: 1995
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Trade union policies towards the Youth Training Scheme: patterns and causes
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UK labor unions have been divided on the issue of government policies toward youth employment and the Youth Training Schemes (YTS). Public sector labor unions representing low-grade employees were most hostile. They saw their members as vulnerable to substitution by trainees and were able to exclude such trainees. Some 50% of the biggest UK labor unions in the Trades Union Congress accepted YTS. Labor unions with an orientation toward the political left were most likely to be hostile.
Publication Name: British Journal of Industrial Relations
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0007-1080
Year: 1995
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and Evidence from Britain
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A labor-market model that may be useful for examining the probable effects of a minimum wage on a labor market is presented. The model is used to study the impact of minimum wages in Britain. Study results indicate that minimum wages have compressed earnings distribution but do not indicate that minimum wages have caused lower employment. Within the employed theoretical framework, the latter result is easily explainable.
Publication Name: Journal of Labor Economics
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0734-306X
Year: 1999
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