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Collective bargaining, wages and productivity in the New Earnings Survey
A description of the incidence of collective agreements in the UK wage setting using the years 1998 through 2001 of the New earnings Survey
Author: Sonia Pereira
Economic Trends, no 612, pp 35-40. ISSN: 0013-0400
This article describes the incidence of collective agreements in the UK wage setting using the years 1998 through 2001 of the New Earning Survey (NES). It shows that the percentage of workers with a wage set with reference to a collective agreement is 51 per cent in the private sector, 96 per cent in the public sector, and 63 per cent in the full sample for workers aged 18 to 65. These numbers are considerably higher than the percentages of workers covered by a wage agreement found with other data sets. This is consistent with union-bargained wages having an affect not only on wages of workers directly covered by collective agreements, but also on the wages of part of the non-covered workforce.
Published in web format: 8 November 2004 at 9:30 am
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