The bargaining structure of British establishments : evidence from the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey / Alison L. Booth.

Abstract

The determinants of the British pay bargaining structure are of interest because of increasing decentralisation in recent years, and because of the importance of the bargaining structure for the general performance of the industrial relations system and other economic phenomena. The paper uses a multinomial logit model to estimate the determinants of the pay bargaining structure in Britain, using the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The bargaining probability is estimated for multi-employer bargaining, organisation-level bargaining and establishment-level bargaining. The findings support many commonly held views about the determinants of the bargaining structure. However, an interesting result is the insignificant effect of establishment size and trade union density on the choice of bargaining level. Show more