If actual unemployment affects the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) through a hysteresis effect, the disinflation involved in reducing a country's inflation rate to that of its future partners in a monetary union could produce a long term cost to monetary union in the form...

Financing of corporate growth has generally not been paid much attention in the development economics literature. Recent analysis of the Emerging Markets Data Base of the International Financial Corporation suggests that corporate financing patterns in India, among a select group of other...

Drawing on data generated from interviews with employers, managers and workers the article examines the reasons for the limited impact of the recently introduced National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK hospitality industry. Managerial control over the terms of the wage-work bargain, together with...

Discusses factors related to physicians' responses to repeated telephone interviews approximately two years apart.

This article examines why the introduction of the National Minimum Wage has been less disruptive in hospitality than had been anticipated. It shows that in hospitality establishments pay rates are not the outcome of managerial decision making alone, but are influenced by broader economic and...

Discusses factors related to physicians' responses to repeated telephone interviews approximately two years apart.

Sociologists of labour have explored the relationship of trade unions to other social movements and the conditions that allow ‘coalitions across the class divide’ to be formed. This article examines this question by presenting evidence on the interaction between trade unions and...

The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (the ‘Lobbying Act’) imposes tight restrictions on the campaigning and lobbying activities of civil society organisations in the UK, diminishing their capacity to represent the interests of working...