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The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

establishment size. Given the limitations of the evidence, which are shown to have relaxed the constraints on legislative innovation …

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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....

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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses a combination of workplace and matched-employee workplace data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions and firm-provided training (incidence, intensity/coverage, and duration) on establishment performance. The performance effects...

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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting data from all four Contingent and Alternative...

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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Becker’s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...

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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The …

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …

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