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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia : Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...
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Dismissal Laws in Australia : Reforms and Enforcement by Labour Courts
Freyens, Benoit - 2015
The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values of the Federal government affected the decisions of...
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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad; Pages, Carmen - 2021
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce...
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'Living' Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...
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Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers … result of the strike action of others. Using a unique data set of the British Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF), it …
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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Addison, John T. - 2006
industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust : Evidence from Cross-Country Data
Addison, John T. - 2017
for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace … reduced strike activity. However, any such effect is sensitive in particular to the union status of work councilors and time …. There is also some indication that collective bargaining at levels higher than the company can exacerbate strike activity …
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Labor Disputes and Labor Flows
Fraisse, Henri - 2011
About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...
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Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: LinkedEmployer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany
Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using linked employer-employee data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001,this paper provides a comprehensive picture of the wage structure in three wage-settingregimes prevalent in the German system of industrial relations...
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities inCollective Bargaining Agreements
Christofides, Louis N.; Nearchou, Paris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity andsignificant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility ofreal as well as nominal wage...
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