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Current situation and future trends of the industrial relations system and trade unions in Greece
Nikolopoulos, Andreas; Patra, Eleni - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 353-368
The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...
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A cartel analysis of the German labor institutions and its implications for labor market reforms
Haucap, Justus; Pauly, Uwe; Wey, Christian - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 163 (2007) 3, pp. 503-516
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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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The future of the French trade unions
Andolfatto, Dominique; Labbé, Dominique - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 341-352
This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the decline of collective actions; the...
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A union representative's perspective of declining union membership
Rivers, Melvin J.; Truitt, Tim - In: International journal of management, economics and … 3 (2014) 3, pp. 125-143
Union membership has declined 24.2 percent since 1945. Declining union membership leads to economic losses for labor … unions. The problem is relevant to scholars and the labor movement, requiring a deeper understanding of union membership … decline. In this qualitative study, experiences with declining union membership are explored with union representatives in Los …
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Unions and investment in intangible capital : when workers and firms cannot commit to long-term contracts and capital investments are sunk, union power can reduce investment
Sulis, Giovanni - 2015
Although coverage of collective bargaining agreements has been declining for decades in most countries, it is still extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms' incentives to invest in capital, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk...
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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks : a narrative database for advanced economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18
This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...
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Perverse effects of two-tier wage bargaining structures : two-tier wage bargaining fails to link wages more closely to productivity and increases allocative inefficiencies
Boeri, Tito - 2015
Debate over labor market flexibility focuses mainly on firing costs, while largely ignoring wage determination and the need for collective bargaining reform. Most countries affected by the euro debt crisis have two-tier bargaining structures in which plant-level bargaining supplements national...
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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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No extension without representation? : evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-31
In many countries, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the sector. This paper analyzes the causal impact of extensions using a natural experiment in...
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