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The Impact of Industrial Relations Legislation on British Union Density
Freeman, Richard B.; Pelletier, Jeffrey - 2021
The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s density rose steadily, making the United Kingdom the most heavily organized large OECD country. In the 1980s, by contrast, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a...
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Employment Law and the Labor Market
Jolls, Christine - 2010
Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper. Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...
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Rule of Law in Labor Relations, 1898-1940
Fishback, Price V. - 2022
The paper examines changes in labor regulation between 1898 and 1940 in the context of issues related to rule of law in two areas. 1) Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision on men’s hours laws as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of...
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The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages
Cramton, Peter; Gunderson, Morley; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2022
Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages and strikes are substantially influenced by labor policy. In particular, we find that prohibiting the use of replacement workers during strikes is associated with significantly...
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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets
Weil, David - 2021
Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies : Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
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Coercive Contract Enforcement : Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh - 2011
British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions....
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Labor Laws and Innovation
Acharya, Viral V. - 2014
Stringent labor laws can provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify this effect by exploiting the time-series variation...
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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition
Disney, Richard F.; Gosling, Amanda; Machin, Stephen J. - 2021
1990 to document and explain the sharp decline in unionization that occurred in Britain over the 1980s. Between 1980 and … 1990 the proportion of British establishments which recognised manual or non-manual trade unions for collective bargaining … and there appears to be no reason why the decline in union activity should not continue into the 1990s …
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Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality : Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
One of the most difficult problems in the social sciences is measuring the policy climate in societies. Prior to the 1930s the vast majority of labor regulations in the U.S. were enacted at the state level. In this paper we develop several summary measures of labor regulation that document the...
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