. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated amongst non-affiliated firms. The lack of …

While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and …

isolation, we consider it an element of HIWS (High Involvement Work System), an employment system comprised of clusters of …

findings for policy and employment practice in the future. …

for their employment practices, by investigating how the structural arrangements granting employees a role in firm boards … employment practices primarily through the power mechanism, contingent on the employees' ability to enforce their preferences … with regard to hiring and other employment practices. We contribute to this scholarly work by (1) explicating why employees …

This paper presents - in a new way of examination and portrayal - the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding "standard employment relationship" nor of its potential … "precariousness"; it is rather the requirement of increasing variability in employment relations due to rising employment …

employees on a range of key business, employment and work organization issues beyond a certain firm size. We exploit the quasi …

collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related … between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining agreement or firm-level contract and employment growth of about one … percentage point per annum. However, the correlation between employment growth and collective bargaining is not robust to the use …