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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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Strikes in France and the Netherlands : a comparison of labour market institutions
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - 2003
Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334347
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Strikes in France and the Netherlands : A Comparison of Labour Market Institutions
den Butter, Frank A. G.; Koppes, Silvie Y. - 2003
Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074618
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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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The Regulation of Labor
Botero, Juan Carlos; Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; … - 2008
We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704352
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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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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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