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The incidence of dismissals in British manufacturing industries
Author(s) -
Deaton David
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1984.tb00482.x
Subject(s) - dismissal , neglect , unfair dismissal , discipline , economics , labour economics , business , law , political science , psychology , psychiatry
Although the question of unfair dismissal has received considerable attention there has been a comparative neglect of the use made by employers of the dismissal sanction per se. This article seeks to explain variations in the rate of disciplinary dismissals using a large survey of manufacturing establishments in Britain.