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By the early 1990s employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) had become more prevalentin unionized firms than in nonunionized firms. However, little research has been devoted to examining the implications of ESOPs for collective bargaining. Ben-Ner and Jun (1996) model ESOPs as a buyout option for...
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. It also assesses the prevalence of profit sharing and employee share ownership schemes.Findings – Industry …-wide collective agreements are not the burden that they are often portrayed. Actual wage rates and the prevalence of profit sharing … in Germany that often present a homogeneous picture of those relations. For the first time, data on the spread of profit …
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Theoretical reasoning disagrees about what type of bargaining system performs best. We have tested the explanatory power of three competing hypotheses: neoliberalism, coporatism and the hump-shape hypothesis. All of these hypotheses lack empirical support due to two main shortcomings. First,...
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hostile towards trade unions, rely on the advice of employer associations, and appear to be uninterested in reforming unfair …
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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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The increasing acceptance of enterprise bargaining by both employers and trade unions in Australia calls into question …
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. The acceptance of enterprise bargaining both by employers and trade unions in Australia calls into question the ongoing …
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Australian trade unions prospered for much of the last century but have suffered membership decline since the late 1970 … 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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organisational effectiveness. In so doing it delineates four approaches an organisation might take in its relations with trade unions … HRM and industrial relations practices. It then looks at the issue of workplace change involving trade unions and … collective bargaining in terms of three categorical models—the management-driven model, the trade union gatekeeper model, and the …
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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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