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Continued
UK establishments with . . . Australian establishments with . . .
Variable description Variable description for
AWIRS Union wage Non-union
Non-union Union wage Union wage
as per Addison et al. AWIRS where slight
Q. bargaining
wage wage
bargaining bargaining
differences exist n = 424
bargaining bargaining
at the firm at the
n = 449 n = 77
level industry n = 115
national level
n = 632
Wages average weekly Average gross weekly wage
A3b,c, 175.7 63.3 147.9 60.9 575.6 189.9 683.9 265.3 592.1 202.5 wage of manual workers
of full-time non-managerial d,e,f,g,
employees at the workplace. h A13b,
c,d,e,f,g,h Notes: a Variable definitions, means and standard deviations in parentheses for the UK are from Addison et al. Table A1.
b In the labour productivity and profitability rows there are four sets of numbers. The first number reports the mean and standard deviation. The other three report the distribution of responses. For example, in the UK, 86 of respondents indicated that labour productivity was ‘a littlelot higher’; in AWIRS a similar share 81.8 also
reported that labour productivity was ‘a littlelot higher’.
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Table A2 Employee involvement measures, definition, mean and standard deviation: WIRS and AWIRS
UK establishments with . . . Australian establishments with . . .
Variable description Variable description for
AWIRS Union wage Non-union
Non-union Union wage Union wage
as per Addison et al. AWIRS where slight
Q. bargaining
wage wage
bargaining bargaining
differences exist n = 424
bargaining bargaining
at the firm at the
n = 449 n = 77
level industry n = 115
national level
n = 632
Joint consultative committee ‘Same’
CD7c 0.3
0.4 0.2
0.4 0.3
0.5 0.8
0.4 0.2
0.4 dummy = 1 if JCC present
Informationconsultation Dummy = 1 if establishment
CA171f, 0.7 0.4
0.6 0.5
0.3 0.4
0.3 0.4
0.2 0.4
schemes dummy = 1 if used either quality circles,
CD7d firm has regular meetings
task force andor other ad to communicate or consult
hoc joint committees to among workgroupsteams
communicate or consult or between workers and
with employees. management, including
quality circles and team briefings.
New joint consultative Dummy = 1 if JCC had been
CD8c 0.1
0.2 0.0
0.2 0.2
0.4 0.2
0.4 0.1
0.3 committee dummy = 1 if
introduced within the last JCC established or reorganised
2 years 1993–1995. between 1987 and 1990.
New informationconsultation Dummy = 1 if workplace had
CD8b 0.2
0.4 0.1
0.3 0.1
0.3 0.2
0.4 0.1
0.3 schemes dummy = 1 if
seen the introduction of changes in employee
quality circles andor task force involvement occurred between
in the 2 two years 1993–1995. 1987 and 1990, including
general consultative meetings, production meetings or other
discussionscommunications between management and
workers.
Notes: See notes to Table A1.
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Other independent variables: Definition, mean and standard deviation
UK establishments with . . . Australian establishments with . . .
Variable description Variable description for
AWIRS Union wage Non-union
Non-union Union wage Union wage
as per Addison et al. AWIRS where slight
Q. bargaining
