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EWC confidential: Confidentiality in European works councils and how representatives deal with it. Case study and survey insights
Meylemans, Lise; De Spiegelaere, Stan - 2020
The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294504
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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …
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Corporate Governance and Industrial Relations in Poland
Federowicz, Michał - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003
The paper discusses Polish privatisation from the industrial relations point of view. Itfocuses on the role of trade unions and workers councils in the privatisation process.Two polar privatisation blueprints are identified: those aiming at competitive ‘atomistic’firms and those, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868235
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European multinational companies and trade unions in Eastern and East-Central Europe
Myant, Martin - 2020
The fact that multinational companies operate (MNCs) in more than one country can be expected to lead to a weaker bargaining position for labour. However, there are hopes that these companies may, under certain circumstances, transfer good employment practices from their home countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565921
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The impact of inflation targeting on unemployment in developing and emerging economies
Divino, Jose Angelo - 2009
targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293308
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Macroeconomic expectations of households amd professional forecasters
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2002
Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume expectations are rational This paper shows that while...
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The epidemiology of macroeconomic expectations
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2001
explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …
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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011
We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...
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