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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704352
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Overtime work, overtime compensation and the distribution of economic well-being : evidence for West Germany and Great Britain
Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … the evolution of the monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West Germany … regards to West Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in "working time accounts", which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402435
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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999
Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442864
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The changing life cycle pattern in female employment : a comparison of Germany and the UK
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2002
-time and part-time employment of different skill groups of women in the UK and West Germany. The analysis is based on large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447839
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Slip sliding away : further union decline in Germany and Britain
Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2010
changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940346
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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904912
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Short-run and long-term effects of childbirth on mothers' employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European Community Househol...
Geyer, Johannes (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540700
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The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017
We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776030
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The "good workplace" : the role of joint consultative committees, unions and HR policies in employee ratings of workplaces in Britain
Barry, Michael P.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2018
Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible interactions with union and management-led high-commitment strategies. We focus on non-union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916644
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Unionization of retired workers in Europe
Pyka, Vinzenz; Schnabel, Claus - 2023
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429602