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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957176
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The Incidence and Outcomes of Industrial Action: New Evidence from the 2019 European Company Survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266650
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892227
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The Incidence and Outcomes of Industrial Action : New Evidence from the 2019 European Company Survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292500
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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees’ health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584876
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The Distributional Impact of Labour Market Reforms : A Model-Based Assessment
Roeger, Werner - 2019
best-performing EU countries. We find a general trade-off between an increase in employment for a particular group and the … income of the average group member relative to income per capita. Reforms that increase employment of low- and medium …-skilled workers imply a trade-off between employment and wages in the low- and medium-skilled group, due to the increase in the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859991
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Women’s Labor Market Responses to Their Partners’ Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment
Keldenich, Carina - 2019
participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892209
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Labour disputes and the game of legal representation
Fraisse, Henri - 2010
This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270486
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Why Are There Strikes?
Nok Chun, Kyung; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020
Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it was thought that they were a result of mistakes or irrationality. Then, during the 1980s an explosion of research brought asymmetric information to prominence as a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314907
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Worker Satisfaction and Worker Representation: The Jury Is Still Out
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away from the traditional focus on union membership per se because its sample of EU nations have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290077