The Economic Effects of Trade Unions in Japan

By: T. Tachibanaki, T. Noda

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Hardcover | 1 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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This is an attempt to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North America. The book investigates who in Japan joins trade unions and asks whether there is any difference in the satisfaction level of employees, the wage level, and labour turnover rates between union members and non-union members.

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Unions and Social-Economic Background	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Conditions of Union Participation Rates	p. 13
Historical trend	p. 13
International comparison	p. 15
Implications for Japan and studies of unions in Japan	p. 19
The importance of non-unionized firms and the role of firm size	p. 20
Enterprise unionism	p. 23
Several thoughts on industrial relations in Japan	p. 24
Process of joining a union	p. 25
Difference by industry	p. 28
Four groups of unions in Japan judging from union participation rates	p. 31
Heterogeneous Workers and Management of Trade Unions	p. 33
Implications of heterogeneous workers for unions	p. 33
Union fees, full-time union officials, leaders, and union objectives	p. 34
Attitudes of Employers (i.e., Management Side) Towards Unions	p. 36
Attitudes of Non-Union Members Towards Unions	p. 40
Introduction	p. 40
How Do Non-union Members Feel about Unions?	p. 41
Who Feels the Necessity of a Union among Non-Union Members?	p. 44
Expectation for the Effect of Trade Unions	p. 47
Reasons for the absence of a Strong Unionization Movement	p. 54
Concluding Remarks	p. 61
Union Voice, and Its Effect on Satisfaction and Separation	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
Empirical Results	p. 65
Simple Statistical Test	p. 68
The Union's Effect on the Level of Workers' Satisfaction	p. 70
The Effect of Union Voices on Labour Turnover	p. 74
Concluding Remarks	p. 77
The Effect of Unions on Wages	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
A Brief Introduction to Wage Determination in Japan	p. 81
Wage Differentials between Unionized Firms and Non-unionized Firms	p. 87
The Effect of Unions and Employee Voice on Wages and Working Conditions: Their Endogeneity Problem	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Endogeneity Problem and Union Effects	p. 94
Endogeneity	p. 94
Other findings on the effect on wages	p. 97
Statistical test	p. 99
Effect on other working conditions	p. 100
The Effect of Voices: Union Firms versus Non-union Firms	p. 102
Voices of employees	p. 102
Quantification of the voices and estimation method	p. 103
Empirical results on non-wage labour conditions	p. 106
Effect on separations	p. 110
Summary	p. 112
Concluding Remarks	p. 112
The Effect of Voices on Working Conditions and Their Economic Interpretation Based on Enterprise Unionism	p. 114
Introduction	p. 114
Enterprise Unionism and Labour Participation	p. 115
Voices of Unions (Employees) and Management Policies	p. 117
Data Sources and Preliminary Analysis	p. 120
The Effect on Productivity	p. 123
The Effect of Voices on Wage Increases and Bonuses: The RIALS Data	p. 129
Overall Evaluations	p. 132
The Effect of Union Voices on Productivity	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Participation of Employees (Unions) in Management: Voices and Productivity	p. 137
Better communication between management and employees	p. 137
Detailed discussions on the reasons for better performance	p. 139
Listed Firms	p. 142
Data source and estimation method	p. 142
Empirical results	p. 143
Economic interpretations	p. 147
Unlisted Firms	p. 149
Data source and estimation method	p. 149
Empirical result	p. 151
Concluding Remarks	p. 156
The Effect of Trade Unions on Labour Shares and Industrial Relations	p. 158
Introduction	p. 158
Theory of Collective Bargaining and the Effect on Labour Shares	p. 159
Time-series Movements in Labour Disputes and Labour Shares	p. 161
Functional Form and Data	p. 164
Empirical Results	p. 166
Discussions on the Empirical Results	p. 170
Concluding Remarks	p. 173
Concluding Remarks	p. 174
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 185
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