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Banking the Furnace: Restructuring of the Steel Industry in Eight Countries
Bain, Trevor - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Trevor Bain explores the industry restructurings that occurred in eight major steel-producing countries, including the U.S., Germany and Japan. He begins by categorizing each country as having either an adversarial or a cooperative industrial relations system, and then analyzes the differences...
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Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations
Sleigh, Stephen R. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book's essays analyze innovative responses by unions, corporations and governments to job loss caused by economic …
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Die Struktur kollektiver Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen in der OECD
Peters, Ralf-Henning; Schneiders, Kerstin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
In diesem Beitrag wird der Einfluß der Strucktur kollektiver Lohnverhandlungen auf ausfließende Direktinvestitionen analysiert. Verwendet werden Daten von 19 OECD-Ländern für die Jahre 1980, 1990 und 1994. Der Zentralisations- und der Koordinationsgrad der Lohnverhandlungen haben einen...
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The (Parlous) State of German Unions
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
model built on encompassing unions. The decline in union membership and density is attributable to external forces that have … confronted unions in many countries (such as globalization and compositional changes in the workforce) and to some specifically … insider behavior on the part of German unions. The ‘correctives’ have included mergers between unions, decentralization, and …
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Business Fluctuations, Job Flows and Trade Unions - Dynamics in the Economy
Schirwitz, Beate - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
behaviour of trade unions? To approach these questions theoretical as well as empirical methods were used. The empirical methods …
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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
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Unions in Britain: Merely on the Margins or on the Cusp of a Comeback?
Gall, Gregor - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 323-340
This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse …
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Regional Wage Differentials and Collective Bargaining in Italy
Carlo DELL’ARINGA; PAGANI, Laura - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 113 (2005) 2, pp. 267-287
This paper uses ESES (European Structure of Earnings Survey) data for 1995 in order to investigate the impact of the Italian bargaining system on regional wage differentials and on local wage dispersion. The ESES survey is a large matched employer-employee data-set containing a wealth of...
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Acting on the Edge of Public Sector: Hospital Corporatization and Collective Bargaining in Hungary and Slovakia
Kahancová, Marta; Szabó, Imre Gergely - Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) - 2012
Effective public sector management became central to economic and political debates across Europe in the last decade. One of the most affected domains is public healthcare that is often subject to ambiguous reforms combining private and public sector “best practices”. This paper attempts to...
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Reduction of Working Time in Austria. A Mixed Methods Study Relating a New Work Time Policy to Employee Preferences
Gerold, Stefanie; Nocker, Matthias - WWWforEurope - 2015
This mixed-methods study examines factors determining employees‘ desire to reduce worktime. The results of a binary logit regression model, based on data from the Austrian Microcencus 2012, suggest that employees who prefer shorter weekly working hours are older, higher educated and work...
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