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Collectivism versus Individualism: Performance-related Pay and Union Coverage for Non-standard Workers in Britain

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Alison L. Booth () (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK)
Marco Francesconi () (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex)

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This paper documents the extent of union coverage and performance-related pay (PRP) - the latter representing one aspect of pay flexibility - across standard and non-standard workers in Britain, using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey, 1991-1997. We find there is no evidence of expansion of either union coverage or PRP towards any type of non-standard employment in the 1990's. Thus union rhetoric about a 'strategy of enlargement' towards non-standard workers remains just that. The only trend over time that we do observe is a continued very small growth in PRP coverage for all male workers (but not for women) and a continued very small growth in PRP coverage for all women (but not for men). In addition, while we find large gender differences in union coverage across non-standard workers, there are only negligible gender differences in PRP incidence. Moreover, the relationship between non-standard employment and PRP is typically weak for both men and women. We also find significant occupational and sectoral differences in union coverage and PRP incidence across non-standard workers.

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Keywords: non-standard work; performance-related pay; union coverage; monopsony; probit regressions Classification-Jel : C25; J33; J42; J51;

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