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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations : individualism, democracy, and conflict
Norlander, Peter - 2019
The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to … described. An analysis of changes to state employment policies since 2000 shows an increasing ideologically driven divergence …. Instability and divergence are major features of the U.S. system of employee relations that require additional scrutiny. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161716
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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina
Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...
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Credit shocks, employment protection, and growth : firm-level evidence from Spain
Laeven, Luc; McAdam, Peter; Popov, Alexander - 2018
We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871918
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Firm-level employment, labour market reforms, and bank distress
Setzer, Ralph; Stieglitz, Moritz - 2019
We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firm-bank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013. While we find that labour market reforms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021559
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Sindicalismo: o fim do contra poder?
Sampaio, José João - 2000
Departing from a stable industrial relationship, supported by logic of economic massification and the correspondent legal framework, it is our objective to approach the new industrial relations environment, emerging from the modifications on the enterprise organisation models, towards the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223475
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Impact of Labour Regulation on Unemployment: A Case Study of France, Germany, UK and USA
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2011
This paper examines the state of labour protection in four countries (UK, USA, France and Germany) during 1970-2006. It supports the contention of the legal-origin theory that UK and USA (common law countries) intervene less in the labour market and grant less protection to labourers. It also...
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Interessenvertretung in globalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken - Theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Befunde
Lohmeyer, Nora; Sydow, Jörg - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 28 (2021) 2, pp. 103-119
Globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke haben als Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zurückgeblieben ist demgegenüber trotz der massiven Betroffenheit vieler Interessengruppen - nicht nur, aber besonders der Beschäftigten -...
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Labour Flexibility and Migration in the EU Eastward Enlargement Context : The Case of the Baltic States
Paas, Tiiu; Eamets, Raul; R??m, Marit; Selliov, Rena; … - 2002
The eastward enlargement of the European Union and the requirements of the European Monetary Union increase pressure for flexibility of labour markets. This paper analyses main changes in the Baltic States? labour market over the period 1990 - 2001 giving emphasis on the problems of labour...
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The Sociology of Work and the work of sociologists in Portugal
Kovács, Ilona; Moniz, António - 2002
A propose for this article is to present information on the emergence of the knowledge field of sociology of work and labor studies in Portugal. The period of 1974-1984 produced an interesting bibliography in the fields of social stratification, labor conflicts and social history. However, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015256966
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The Sociology of Work and the work of sociologists in Portugal
Kovács, Ilona; Moniz, António - 2002
A propose for this article is to present information on the emergence of the knowledge field of sociology of work and labor studies in Portugal. The period of 1974-1984 produced an interesting bibliography in the fields of social stratification, labor conflicts and social history. However, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255963