Why have workers stopped joining unions? The rise in never-membership in Britain.
British Journal of Industrial Relations
2005
43
1
March
67-92
nonunionized worker ; statistics ; trade unionization ; trade union ; trade union membership
Trade unionism
English
Bibliogr.
"This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members ('never-member') since the early 1980s and shows that it is the reduced likelihood of ever becoming a member, rather than the haemorrhaging of existing members, that is behind the decline in overall union membership in Britain. We estimate the determinants of 'never-membership' and consider how much of the rise can be explained by structural change in the labour market and how much by change in preferences among employees."
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