This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Walther Müller-Jentschs Soziologie industrieller Beziehungen auseinander. Er argumentiert, dass die Transformation des einstigen Sozialkapitalismus zwei Welten sozialer Regulation hervorgebracht hat, deren „Grenzregime“ zunehmend umkämpft ist. Es handelt sich, so...

Die nachstehende Replik geht nach einer Präzisierung des Konzepts der Konfliktpartnerschaft auf die wesentlichen Kritikpunkte ein, die die Beiträger zur Kontroverse Konfliktpartnerschaft erhoben haben. Sie greift deren Hinweise auf die Fragmentierung der deutschen industriellen Beziehungen in...

The signatories of the Paris Agreement have agreed to pursue efforts to limit global warming to between 1.5C and 2C. At the same time, governments are now focused on economic and social recovery with an emphasis on job creation. It is crucial to advance on all fronts. Jobs in a Net-Zero...

Until now there exists no consensus view on the determinants of unemployment. Whereas some empirical papers find that mainly labour market institutions explain unemployment, others argue that this correlation is not robust. One explanation for these contradictory results is that labour market...

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

Australia's latest federal labour law statute, the Fair Work Act 2009, bolsters the shift towards enterprise level bargaining and decentralization of the Australian industrial relations system. The shift comports with the ‘third way' ideology that embraces enterprise-sensitive outcomes as a...

Discussions on how to organize European labour markets are one of the key public policy issues of today. In European policy debates, the most important concepts seem to be ‘flexicurity' and the ‘transitional labour market.' In this report we examine the cross-country variation in the...

The article reviews developments in industrial relations in Republic of Korea (Korea) and Indonesia as democratic principles have gained ground over authoritarian directives. Some of the features of the industrial relations regime during democratization ‘epoch', include the embarking on...

Organized labor has been politically vocal in the United States ever since the movement emerged in the late 1800s. A striking development since the 1970s, however, is its hardening opposition to trade liberalization. Labor leaders have opposed virtually all legislative initiatives since the...