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Contracting Out in Japanese Local Government: Are Unions Making a Difference?
Author(s) -
Hayakawa Seiichiro,
Simard François
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8543.00190
Subject(s) - outsourcing , union density , government (linguistics) , local government , test (biology) , service (business) , business , economic geography , political science , economics , labour economics , public administration , collective bargaining , marketing , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Using 1997 data for Japanese cities, we examine the relationship between union density and outsourcing in local government. We also test the hypothesis that cities where employees are represented by the more radical of the two local civil service unions will have less outsourcing than cities where the less critically oriented union dominates. The results of the analysis support the central hypothesis that union density is negatively correlated with outsourcing, but they do not support the second hypothesis.