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Unions in Brazil : what to expect in the near future?

Campos, André Gambier - 2016

Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …

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Collective bargaining and monopsony : the regulation of noncompete agreements in France

Boeri, Tito; Crescioli, Tommaso; Garnero, Andrea; … - 2025

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...

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Tarifverträge und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dienstleistungsunternehmen

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

Der Beitrag untersucht die Verbreitung von Tarifverträgen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen sowie deren Wirkungen auf die Beschäftigungspolitik im Falle von Nachfrageschwankungen. Der empirische Teil basiert auf der ZEW/Creditreform Konjunkturumfrage bei unternehmensnahen...

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Collective wage agreements and the adjustment of workers and hours in German service firms

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production factors when firms from the service sector are faced...

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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

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Layoffs and productivity at a Bangladeshi sweater factory

Akerlof, Robert; Ashraf, Anik; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023

Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. Combining ethnographic, survey and administrative records from a large Bangladeshi sweater factory, we study how workers responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the...

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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2024

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...

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Consumption-led expansions are toxic for future output growth

Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022

When assessing future growth prospects, does it matter how the economy grows now? In other words, does the current structure of demand affect future growth? This question is analyzed in our paper by using global and EU panel data. The result is quite striking: consumption-led growth - either in...

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Remedies for European growth problem

Matti, Viren - 2015

This paper deals with the slowdown of economic growth in Europe. For that purpose, we focus on factors that affect the long-run growth path of different economies. Special emphasis is paid to institutional and structural factors that are often assumed to affect aggregate growth: functioning of...

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