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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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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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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221560
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Works councils, training and employee satisfaction
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf; Leber, Ute - 2018
This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not reveal clearly direct effects, but on an establishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924990
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Informal care and labor supply
Fevang, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2008
Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring's labor market activity. The employment propensity declines by around 1 percentage point among sons and 2 percentage points among daughters during the years just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759323
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The impacts of labor market policies on job search behavior and post-unemployment job quality
Gaure, Simen (contributor); Røed, Knut (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771862
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Disability in the welfare state : an unemployment problem in disguise?
Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959200
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The rise in absenteeism : disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time
Biørn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2010
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779991
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When minority labor migrants meet the welfare state
Bratsberg, Bernt (contributor); Raaum, Oddbjørn (contributor) - 2007
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609735
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Unemployment insurance in welfare states : soft constraints and mild sanctions
Røed, Knut (contributor); Westlie, Lars (contributor) - 2007
Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609799