"This paper examines the effects of industrial action and the impact of strike costs on the industrial action activity. Germany is characterised by having little industrial action. Within the framework of a wage bargaining model, it is argued that higher industrial action costs for the union...

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice - especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and,...

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory...

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice – especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice...

"We test the theoretical claim that coordination and centralisation in wage setting reduce strike activity by estimating nonlinear regression models using a dataset of 17 OECD countries for the period 1972-2000. We find moderating effects of coordination on strike activity but the effects are...

Der Geschäftsklima-Indikator der sächsischen Industrie hat sich im Mai noch weiter verschlechtert. Ausschlaggebend für den Rückgang waren ausschließlich die wesentlich skeptischeren Erwartungen hinsichtlich der Entwicklung in den nächsten Monaten. Hingegen hat sich die Geschäftslage...

Die Forderung der CDU/CSU-Mittelstandsvereinigung nach der Einführung einer obligatorischen Urabstimmung vor dem Beginn eines Streiks wird von Dr. Dieter Hundt, Präsident der Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeber abgelehnt: "Der Beschluss der CDU/CSU-Mittelstandsvereinigung zur...

"We test the theoretical claim that coordination and centralisation in wage setting reduce strike activity by estimating nonlinear regression models using a dataset of 17 OECD countries for the period 1972-2000. We find moderating effects of coordination on strike activity but the effects are...