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Sectoral collective agreements: remuneration straitjackets for German workplaces?

Allen, Matthew; Tuselmann, Heinz; El-Said, Hamed; … - 2007

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Personnel Review, published by and copyright Emerald.

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Forcing German managers to focus on productivity

Klikauer, Thomas - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2005

Purpose ? Aims to test Walton and McKersie?s theory on labour negotiations, specifically in the case of German car manufacturers. Design/methodology/approach ? The research is based on interviews with industrial actors in Germany?s car industry ? an empirical case study. Findings ? The article...

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Employer associations in the contemporary employment relations landscape : where to now?

Mortimer, D. E.; Still, Leonie V.; Bond, Sue - University of Western Australia; University of Western …; … - 2002

The increasing acceptance of enterprise bargaining by both employers and trade unions in Australia calls into question not only the ongoing role of industrial tribunals, but also that of employer associations and their traditional role in the collective representation of individual employers in...

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Union membership : Australia

Spooner, Keri; Innes, Colin; Mortimer, D. E. - University of Technology, Sydney; University of …; … - 2001

contributed to union growth, including the organisation and nature of work, the then-prevailing social values and the relative … effectiveness of trade union strategy vis-?-vis that of the employer. Similarly, the significant decline in union membership during … both within unions and the workforce generally. In this paper, we outline the rise and fall of trade union membership over …

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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages : evidence from Spain, 1989-2009

Lacuesta Gabarain, Aitor; Puente Díaz, Sergio; … - 2012

The response of human capital accumulation to changes in the anticipated returns to schooling determines the type of skills supplied to the labor market, the productivity of future cohorts, and the evolution of inequality. Unlike the US, the UK or Germany, Spain has experienced since 1995 a drop...

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Collective bargaining, firm heterogeneity and unemployment

Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Thomas, Carlos

Comparamos el comportamiento del mercado laboral bajo negociación a nivel de empresa y a nivel de sector en una economía de tipo Mortensen-Pissarides con un sector y con perturbaciones específicas a la empresa. Nuestros resultados teóricos principales son dos. Primero, el desempleo es menor...

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Contract staggering and unemployment during the great recession : evidence from Spain

Díez-Catalán, Luis; Villanueva López, Ernesto - 2014

Una caída de la actividad agregada conlleva una reducción de la demanda de empleo, que es tanto mayor cuanto más rígidos sean los salarios. Este artículo examina el impacto de la rigidez salarial en España sobre la evolución del empleo entre 2009 y 2010. La extensión de los convenios...

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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; …

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill-specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...

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