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The legal form of labour conflicts and their time persistence: an empirical analysis with a large firms’ panel

Malo, Miguel; Sánchez-Sánchez, Nuria - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 38 (2014) 3, pp. 513-533

results do not support asymmetric information theories of strike. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014 …

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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law

Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...

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The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union Density Rates: Evidence from Canadian Provinces.

Scott Legree, Tammy Schirle, Mikal Skuterud - Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics - 2014

We provide evidence on the potential for reforms in labour law to reverse deunionization trends by relating an index of the favorability to unions of Canadian provincial labour relations statutes to changes in provincial union density rates between 1981 and 2012. The results suggest that...

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Virtual vs. Standard Strike: An Experiment

Innocenti, Alessandro; Nicita, Antonio - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2009

In this paper we compare - in the laboratory - stoppage and virtual strike. Our experiment confirms that higher wages … average total payoffs are higher under virtual strike than under standard strike. However, when standard strike is associated … than virtual strike. It is unclear whether this behavior re?ects reciprocity or other forms of social preferences. However …

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Pre-litigation Mediation as a Privacy Policy: Exploring the Interaction of Economics and Privacy

Costello, Thomas J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Pre-litigation mediation is a perfect example of the economic trade-offs that exist in privacy policy. In pre-litigation mediation, costs and confidentiality work independently. However, there is a precarious balance that exists where, if either confidentiality or cost became less effective the...

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Rural labour markets and rural conflict in Spain before the Civil War (1931-1936)

Domenech, Jordi - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2012

This paper looks at the causes of rural conflict in 1930s Spain. Rather than stressing bottom-up forces of mobilisation linked to poor harvests and rural unemployment or the inability of the state to enforce reformist legislation, this paper explores the role of state policy in sorting out the...

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Employment Protection Reform, Enforcement in Collective Agreements and Worker Flows

Heyman, Fredrik; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

Differential enforcement of employment protection by explicit design of the legislation, for example through exemptions for small firms, has been exploited in a growing body of research. However, little is known about the effects of differential enforcement that is not defined by the letter of...

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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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Hungarian Unions: Responses to Political Challenges

Neumann, László - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 369-386

Hungarian trade unions face both the direct consequences of economic downturn and the political challenges that are implied by the deterioration in employees’ and unions’ bargaining positions with regard to employers. This article presents the political re-sponses of both militant and...

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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 - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper we apply standard cartel theory to identify the major institutional stabilizers of Germany's area tariff system of collective bargaining between a single industry union and the industry's employers association. Our cartel analysis allows us to demonstrate that recent labor policy...

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