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Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States
Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
States, it looks to the experience of Canada as the country most similar to it. …
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Die Entwicklung der Arbeitsbeziehungen aus arbeitsrechtlicher Sicht Developments in German Industrial Relations from a Labor Law Perspective)
Weiss, Manfred - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 20 (2013) 4, pp. 393-417
Der Beitrag skizziert die Entwicklung der Arbeitsbeziehungen in Deutschland seit dem erstmaligen Erscheinen der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ aus arbeitsrechtlichem Blickwinkel. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es im Koalitionsrecht, im Tarifvertragsrecht, im Arbeitskampfrecht und im...
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Sindicalismo: o fim do contra poder?
Sampaio, José João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Departing from a stable industrial relationship, supported by logic of economic massification and the correspondent legal framework, it is our objective to approach the new industrial relations environment, emerging from the modifications on the enterprise organisation models, towards the new...
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Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law
IV, William B. Gould - The MIT Press
This pioneering comparative study of Japanese and American labor law reveals a labor-relations system superficially resembling our own but shaped by an entirely different culture, and with a marked impact on Japan's economic success. Among Gould's findings are that the Japanese have adopted...
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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.
Addison, John T.; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation -...
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The Swedish industrial relations transformation during the 1970s – abolishing neutrality and affecting the deep structure
Malm Lindberg, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
Industrial Relations systems are essentially a nexus of contracts between different actors: Government, employer’s organizations and unions first and foremost. The Swedish labour market model was based on the concept of Government neutrality ie: non-partisanship and non-intervention from the...
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The Law and Economics of Dismissal Regulation - A Comparative Analysis of the US and UK Systems
Beck, Matthias - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1996
This paper analyzes competing models of dismissal regulation from a Law and Economics perspective, using the contemporary US and UK dismissal regimes as a comparative benchmark. The regulation of dismissals in the UK and US differs widely in spite of their joint common-law tradition. Whereas the...
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The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
German law guaranteeing works councils is not a datum. The thrust of legislation has changed significantly on a number of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a controversial swing in favor of works council formation and...
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The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union Density Rates: Evidence from Canadian Provinces
Legree, Scott; Schirle, Tammy; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of 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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Labour Market Matters - November 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … the informal sector, and on labour tax revenues. The study finds that while minimum wage policy can increase average wages … in labour relation laws on union density rates in Canada. They find that while changes to labour relations laws have the …
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