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Strikes in France and the Netherlands : a comparison of labour market institutions

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - 2003

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper … agreements in the previous year, whereas strike activity is high in the Netherlands if, in the preceding year, real wage … formation on a macro-level is much higher in France than in the Netherlands. …

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Gift exchange in the workplace

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Imports as product and labour market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Organization context and human resource management in the small firm

Kok, Jan M. P. de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

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