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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007

Askenazy, Philippe (contributor) - 2008

creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation of firms to regulation. This paper provides a primer for researchers …

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Unions and establishment performance : evidence from the British workplace industrial/employee relations surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings …

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...

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Incentives to comply with the minimum wage in the US and UK

Stansbury, Anna - 2024

There is substantial evidence of minimum wage noncompliance in the US and the UK. In this paper, I compile new, comprehensive data on the costs minimum wage violators incur when detected. In both countries, the costs violators face upon detection are often little more than the money they saved...

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Social connections and incentives in the workplace : evidence from personnel data

Bandiera, Oriana (contributor); Barankay, Iwan (contributor) - 2008

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … combine panel data on individual worker's productivity from personnel records with a natural field experiment in which we … engineered an exogenous change in managerial incentives, from fixed wages, to bonuses based on the average productivity of the …

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Strikes, scabs and tread separations : labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone/Firestone tires

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Mas, Alexandre (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Sharing Is caring : employee stock ownership plans and employee wellbeing in U.S. manufacturing

Adrianto, Adrianto; Ben-Ner, Avner; Sockin, Jason; … - 2024

Do employees fare better in firms they partly own? Examining workers' reviews of their employers on Glassdoor, we compare employee satisfaction between firms in which workers own company shares through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and conventional firms in which they do not. Focusing...

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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