The changing fortunes of an aristocracy? Determinants of wages and conditions of employment in Kenya

Union‐Type Effects on Bargaining Outcomes in Indian Manufacturing

“…on the industry side are found to be significant determinants (Dholakia, 1976;House and Rempel, 1976). Within firms in an industry, bargaining outcomes are related to whether the firm is a multinational subsidiary or owned by national capital (Standing and Taira, 1973;Henley and House, 1978). Given the lack of disaggregated plant-level data and information relating to the above, the industry controls will have to serve as proxies.…”

Pluralism, Underdevelopment and Trade Union Power: Evidence From Kenya

“…Overall, the higher skilled workers gained appreciably more than the unskilled workers from the firms with 'ability to pay' high wages. 31 The strategy of employers in the Kenya labour market maintaining a stable but skewed wage structure can be seen as an economically rational approach to the problem of achieving the low labour turnover necessary for the maintenance of a stable flow of profits over time. As Harris argues, if there is a more than proportionate increase in labour productivity as a result of paying above average wages and reducing labour turnover then labour costs per unit of output…”