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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. …
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Regulating the Fissured Workplace : The Notion of the ‘Employer’ in Chinese Labour Law
Zou, Mimi - 2018
The term 'fissured workplace' has been coined by David Weil to describe fundamental changes in the organisation of work arising from firms' competitive strategies in the 21st century. As Weil put it, fissurisation refers to 'both a form of employment (for example, temporary agency employment;...
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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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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...
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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....
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Editorial: Zwanzig Jahre Industrielle Beziehungen – Rückblick und Bilanz
Müller-Jentsch, Walther - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 20 (2013) 4, pp. 258-284
Der Beitrag praesentiert in drei Teilen eine Bilanz von zwanzig Jahren. Zunaechst werden Zielsetzung und Inhalte der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ resuemiert, danach die Entwicklungen in der wissenschaftlichen Profession des Objektbereichs Industrielle Beziehungen aufgezeigt und...
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A atual reforma trabalhista: Possibilidades, problemas e contradições
Campos, André Gambier - 2017
Since the 1930s, the Brazilian State has built a national system of labour relations. In the following decades, this system underwent many changes, as well the country itself (which became urbanized, industrialized etc.). At the present time, there is a new wave of changes in the labour...
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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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Institutionalisierungsperspektiven der Interessenvertretung von Solo-Selbstständigen
Abbenhardt, Lisa; Pongratz, Hans J. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 26 (2019) 3, pp. 253‒277
Mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Solo-Selbstständigkeit als Erwerbsform ist auch die Problematik ihrer unzureichenden sozialpolitischen Integration ins öffentliche Bewusstsein gerückt. Eine zentrale Herausforderung liegt darin, dass die Interessenvertretung für Solo-Selbstständige...
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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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