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Bargaining Levels and Relative Earnings in Northern Ireland in 1987
Author(s) -
Harris Richard I. D.
Publication year - 1990
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/j.1467-8543.1990.tb01003.x
Subject(s) - differential (mechanical device) , earnings , productivity , wage , bargaining power , labour economics , economics , northern ireland , power (physics) , wage bargaining , demographic economics , accounting , microeconomics , macroeconomics , sociology , ethnology , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering , aerospace engineering
Individual level data is used to consider the effects of the union mark‐up on earnings in Northern Ireland and in particular to find out if a differential exists between bargaining groups as well as across covered and not covered workers. The results show that company (and to a lesser extent, UK industry‐wide) agreements have a much lower mark‐up than might be deduced by simply analysing mean wage levels across groups. This suggests that most of the differential is actually the result of a productivity advantage attached to (these) covered workers and not because of union power per se.