Ten Years of Manufacturing Wage Settlements: 1979–89

Ingram, Peter

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“…Similarly, whilst it is not the main focus of his work, Stewart (1983aStewart ( , 1987Stewart ( , 1991 reports standard deviations of ln(earnings) that are lower for union than non-union establishments, based on National Training Survey data from 1975 and on data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of and 1984.' Ingram (1991 reports a higher coefficient of variation amongst non-bargained pay settlements, using data from the CM pay databank.…”

Section: H Unions and Earnin2s Dicnersjpn: Existing Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in British Establishments, 1980-90

Gosling¹,

Machin²

1994

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The relationship between unions and earnings dispersion is examined using establishmentlevel data from the 1980, 1984 and 1990 Workplace Industial Relations Surveys. Initially the cross-sectional relationship is examined using the 1990 data. The earnings dispersion of skilled and semi-skilled workers is seen to be lower across unionised establishments than across nonunion establishments; secondly, within-establishment earnings dispersion is lower in plants which recognise trade unions for collective bargaining purposes than in those that do not. All three surveys are then utilised to ascertain to what extent the decline in unionization in Britain has contributed to the rise in earnings inequality of semi-skilled workers. There was a sizable and important widening of the gap in the dispersion of earnings across union and non-union plants between 1980 and 1990. For semi-skilled earnings, the decline in the share of plants with recognised unions can account for 11-17% of the rise in earnings inequality over this time period.The importance of falling union activity (as measured by union recognition) seemed to accelerate through the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1984 the relatively small falls in aggregate recognition explain less than 10% of the inequality increase, whereas between 1984 and 1990 about onequarter of the increase can be accounted for by the fall in unionisation. The majority of the rise in earnings inequality is, however, due to a large increase in earnings dispersion across non-union establishments.

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Section: H Unions and Earnin2s Dicnersjpn: Existing Workmentioning

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Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in British Establishments, 1980-90

Gosling¹,

Machin²

1994

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“…The first two columns of Table 2, showing annual inflation and levels of wage settlements, illustrate the importance of price inflation. The second column in Table 2 plots the falling pattern of wage outcomes 197919811983198519871991199319951997 Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug 1980Aug 1982Aug 1984Aug 1986Aug 1988Aug 1990Aug 1992Aug 1994Aug 1996 Pay month Inflation Figure 1: Inflation and mean settlement for each pay month (August 1979to July 1997 throughout the 18 years of the CBI's work. The table shows the average level of wage settlements starting at 16.2 per cent and falling to 3.5 per cent 18 years later.…”

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Building employer solidarity? Britain's experience of coordinated bargaining, 1979 to 1997

Ingram¹,

Lindop

2011

Industrial Relations Journal

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The election of the Conservative government in 1979 is seen as a watershed in pay determination in the UK, ending formal pay policies. While the government withdrew, the UK's major employer organisation, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), endeavoured to operate an alternative system of employer coordination on pay between 1979 and 1997. Had this approach succeeded, the UK's approach to pay determination would have become much more aligned to the models adopted within other EU Member States. We analyse the development of this alternative to government‐imposed incomes policy and measure its impact on the growth of earnings. We conclude that, despite the CBI's policy, the actions of individual employers suffered from classic market failure until the British economy was subjected to mounting competitive pressures from the international environment.

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“…For example, Blanchflower (1991), using the annual British Social Attitudes Surveys, concludes that the 'differential appears to have stayed broadly constant [at 10%) in the 1980s' (p. 492). By contrast, both Ingram (1991), using data from the CBI pay databank, and Gregg and Machin (1992), using information from their own survey of nearly 300 firms employing some 2 million workers, conclude that in the 1980s unionized firms experienced slower wage growth than their non-union counterparts and that 'this is consistent with an erosion of the average unionhon-union wage differential in these firms over the late 1980s'.…”

Section: (Iv) Unionlnon-union Pay Structurementioning

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“…Despite higher unemployment, the growth in competition and the legislative onslaught against unions, real wages grew faster than at any other time in the postwar period (Bayliss 1993). The insiders changed their work practices (Ingram 1991), and the efficiency, productivity and profits of their establishments were given a boost, at least in manufacturing. The insiders got their reward in the form of higher real earnings.…”

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Industrial Relations and Economic Performance

Metcalf

1993

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Postwar concerti about our industrial relations system hus been dominated by three issues: pay; performance at workplace, company and national level; and industrial action. In each case the focus of interest is the link between the institutions, procedures and processes of the system and the outcomes that it generates. This paper evaluates evidence on these three issues f o r the last quarter-century, since the pirblicution of the Donovan Report in 1968. Special uttentiori is given to information from successive WIRSs. The evidence suggests that (i) industrial action is of minor importance; (ii) the industrial relations system can no longer be held to stymie company performance; (iii) the pay-jobs trade-off is as intractable us ever. P ?

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Ten Years of Manufacturing Wage Settlements: 1979–89

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in British Establishments, 1980-90

Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in British Establishments, 1980-90

Building employer solidarity? Britain's experience of coordinated bargaining, 1979 to 1997

Industrial Relations and Economic Performance

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