Does egalitarian pay add value? Pay compression, union structure and manufacturing productivity growth in the OECD
Does egalitarian pay add value? Pay compression, union structure and manufacturing productivity growth in the OECD
Unions reduce aggregate pay inequality. Where industrial, or encompassing, unionism predominates, movements have generally coherently pursued inter-enterprise or inter-occupational compression. However, pay compressions have generally been rather unstructured where unionism is segmented by enterprise or the craft-general divide. Analysis of labour productivity growth in manufacturing across 14 OECD countries between 1965 and 1995 shows that an emphasis on aggregate pay compression hampers productivity growth under encompassing unionism, but under segmented unionism promotes it.
appropriability, organizing principle, pay inequality, performance, solidaristic pay, unions, valueadded, wage dispersion
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Vernon, Guy
07d124b8-c898-476e-b342-bd2bacc4107d
1 March 2015
Vernon, Guy
07d124b8-c898-476e-b342-bd2bacc4107d
Vernon, Guy
(2015)
Does egalitarian pay add value? Pay compression, union structure and manufacturing productivity growth in the OECD.
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 21 (1), .
(doi:10.1177/0959680113511007).
Abstract
Unions reduce aggregate pay inequality. Where industrial, or encompassing, unionism predominates, movements have generally coherently pursued inter-enterprise or inter-occupational compression. However, pay compressions have generally been rather unstructured where unionism is segmented by enterprise or the craft-general divide. Analysis of labour productivity growth in manufacturing across 14 OECD countries between 1965 and 1995 shows that an emphasis on aggregate pay compression hampers productivity growth under encompassing unionism, but under segmented unionism promotes it.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2013
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 November 2013
Published date: 1 March 2015
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appropriability, organizing principle, pay inequality, performance, solidaristic pay, unions, valueadded, wage dispersion
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HRM and Organisational Behaviour
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/359218
ISSN: 0959-6801
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