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Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change : Evidence from Ireland

Cronin, Hugh - 2014

This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...

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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce

Nolan, Anne - 2018

A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share … labour market career may reflect lower rates of retirement among the self-employed compared to employees, as well as … Ageing (TILDA), spanning the period 2010-2016, to examine both the characteristics of the older self-employed in Ireland and …

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Corporate Hierarchies Under Employee Representation

Belloc, Filippo - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation

Forth, John - 2016

Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...

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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

Addison, John T. - 2018

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...

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Skill Gaps in the Workplace : Measurement, Determinants and Impacts

McGuinness, Seamus - 2015

Optimal training decisions require employers to have accurate information about their workers' training needs. However, little is known with regard to the key factors determining the accurate transmission of worker training requirements. Using one of the few linked employer-employee surveys in...

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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets

Pencavel, John H. - 2020

Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased,...

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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust : Evidence from Cross-Country Data

Addison, John T. - 2017

This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...

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The 'Good Workplace' : The Role of Joint Consultative Committees, Unions and HR Policies in Employee Ratings of Workplaces in Britain

Barry, Michael - 2018

Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible interactions with union and management-led high-commitment strategies. We focus on non-union...

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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

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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