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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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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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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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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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If individuals join a trade union their utility should increase. Therefore, union members can be expected to exhibit … sometimes indicates that union members have lower job satisfaction, but overall suggests the absence of a robust correlation …. This survey discusses empirically relevant determinants of the relationship between trade union membership and job …
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If individuals join a trade union their utility should increase. Therefore, union members can be expected to exhibit … sometimes indicates that union members have lower job satisfaction, but overall suggests the absence of a robust correlation …. This survey discusses empirically relevant determinants of the relationship between trade union membership and job …
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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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We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by … non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among … employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow rate, that accounts for this decline. We show how union decline is …
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regarding transnational union cooperation and union action, but also that there is greater diversity between sectors than …
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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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