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Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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Assessing the legal value added of collective bargaining agreements

Martins, Pedro S.; Saraiva, Joana - 2019

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In this paper we propose a methodology to address this question: we compare the specific contents of collective agreements (except minimum wages) to their equivalent norms set by...

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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017

This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

councils may be construed as largely beneficial. However, any such optimistic evaluation is heavily qualified by union … organization and in particular workplace unionism. Establishment union density seemingly blunts the performance of employee …

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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium

Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32

The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...

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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility : the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Transnational trade union cooperation in the Nordic countries

Larsson, Bengt; Bengtsson, Mattias; Lovén Seldén, Kristina - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 1, pp. 32-48

regarding transnational union cooperation and union action, but also that there is greater diversity between sectors than …

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Value of work : bargaining, job-satisfaction, and taxation in a simple GE model

FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor); … - 2005

Job-satisfaction as a component of workers' utility has been strangely neglected, with work usually regarded as reducing utility and the benefits of leisure. This is contradicted by many empirical studies showing that unemployment is a major cause of unhappiness, even when income is controlled...

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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments

Addison, John T. - 2019

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

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Collective Bargaining Under Competition Law Review

Gurkaynak, Gonenc - 2018

.S. and the European Union.The competition laws, playing a major role in national economic policy, are designed in a way to …

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