The rise of the free movements: how posting shapes a hybrid single European Labour market

"Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. Adopting a comparative case study approach using nationally representative linked employer-employee s...

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Main Authors: Bryson, Alex, Dale-Olsen, Harald, Nergaard, Kristine
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Bonn 2016
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-907312472559-The-rise-of-the-free-movements.htm
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author Bryson, Alex
Dale-Olsen, Harald
Nergaard, Kristine
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Dale-Olsen, Harald
Nergaard, Kristine
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description "Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. Adopting a comparative case study approach using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys for Norway and Britain we examine whether, in keeping with a median voter model, the gender shift in union membership has resulted in differential wage returns to unionisation among men and women. In Britain, while only women receive a union wage premium, only men benefit from the increased bargaining power of their union as indicated by workplace union density. In Norway, on the other hand, although a union wage premium arises from individual union membership for men and women in male-dominated unions, in workplaces where the union is female-dominated women benefit more than men from the increased bargaining power of the union as union density rises. The findings suggest British unions continue to adopt a paternalistic attitude to representing their membership, in contrast to their more progressive counterparts in Norway."
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is_hierarchy_title The rise of the free movements: how posting shapes a hybrid single European Labour market
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publishDate 2016
publisher Bonn
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spellingShingle Bryson, Alex
Dale-Olsen, Harald
Nergaard, Kristine
collective bargaining
gender
trade union
wages
trade union membership
The rise of the free movements: how posting shapes a hybrid single European Labour market
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title The rise of the free movements: how posting shapes a hybrid single European Labour market
topic collective bargaining
gender
trade union
wages
trade union membership
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-907312472559-The-rise-of-the-free-movements.htm