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This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of sector-level bargaining systems and their role for labour market performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining systems, the Netherlands and Portugal, and document a number of features that may affect labour...
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A large number of articles have analysed 'the one constant' in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo-Saxon countries. We investigate whether a...
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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
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management. Greater automation in establishments with ER does not seem to result from more adversarial employment relationships … workplace practices, such as skill development, job redesign and working time management, that may be complementary to new …
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The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … area which is particularly relevant for Australia. This paper attempts to fill this void by estimating a multi …
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based on Australian data, the tentative conclusion is that the introduction of minimum wage legislation in Australia in 1997 …
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in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
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We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of complementarity in organizations. Specifically, rather than treating each work practice in isolation, we consider it an element of HIWS (High...
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We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...
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