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This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game ….S.and Japan during the first three decades of this century. In both countries, employment relations evolved from ones governed by …-term contracts and company-wide employee representation.The paper then documents the subsequent processes of bifurcation. While Japan …
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This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game ….S.and Japan during the first three decades of this century. In both countries, employment relations evolved from ones governed by …-term contracts and company-wide employee representation.The paper then documents the subsequent processes of bifurcation. While Japan …
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This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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This paper indicates that the extent of collective bargaining coverage in an industry may depend on the differences in firms productivity levels within the industry. Less pronounced differences in productivity levels make it easier to design collective wage contracts that are accepted by a wider...
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