The Workplace Employment Relations Survey series is a tremendously useful source of datafor industrial relations researchers. But, like all large-scale secondary datasets, it has anumber of design problems. These have not been articulated previously in much depth.Looking at the 2004 instalment...

How and whether judges should be held accountable is a key issue in the design of a legalsystem. Thirty-seven of the forty-eight continental states use some method of judicial selectionwhich involves a direct role for citizens in selecting or re-appointing the judiciary. We identifytwo...

The policy agenda of extending working lives requires a holistic understandingof factors underlying the decision of older workers to withdraw from work andto retire. This brief paper presents employment patterns and trends of olderpeople across EU Member States and identifies policy initiatives...

This paper sheds light on two mechanisms that make some citizens worse off from apolitical leader’s having access to more information. It also addresses the question whoare the losers and who are the winners. Moreover, it is discussed how the results of theanalysis can be helpful in...

The strikingly different labor market performance of major industrial countries suggests that neither globalization nor skill-biased technological change necessarily result in rising unemployment or declining wages of low-skilled workers. Rather, globalization and technological change cause...