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Impacts of Corporate Code of Conduct on Labor Standards: A Case Study of Reebok’s Athletic Footwear Supplier Factory in China
Yu, Xiaomin - In: Journal of Business Ethics 81 (2008) 3, pp. 513-529
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Relations professionnelles et volontarisme: hong-kong dans le dilemme.
SH, Ng - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982
ILO pub. Article on voluntarist labour relations trends and issues in Hong Kong - provides comparisons with the system in the UK, discusses the historical background, labour legislation enactments since 1968, impact on collective bargaining and trade union membership, etc., and suggests a...
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Task force: Gewerkschaften, Arbeitsmarktregulierung und Migration in China
Pütten, Jann Christoph von der; Göbel, Christian - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2013
der ca. 180 Millionen Wanderarbeiterinnen und Wanderarbeiter in China unterzogen. … unions and the role of collective bargaining for determining wage levels, and addresses the fundamental question if China is … running out of cheap labour. The effect of recent legal changes on China's approximately 180 million migrant workers is also …
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Union Organizing and Membership Growth: Why Don’t They Organize?
Fiorito, Jack; Jarley, Paul - In: Journal of Labor Research 33 (2012) 4, pp. 461-486
This study analyzes U.S. union organizing activity and membership growth from 1990 to 2004, a period in which an overall pattern of union decline continued and in which organizing achieved renewed prominence as both a union policy and public policy issue. Models for organizing activity and...
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Equilibrium earning premium and pension schemes: The long-run macroeconomic effects of the union
Chiarini, Bruno; Piselli, Paolo - Dipartimento di Studi Economici "Salvatore Vinci", … - 2012
Using the theoretical framework based on the monopoly union model described in Kidd and Oswald (1987) and Jones (1987), this paper provides an explicit framework to assess the role of wage moderation in Italy in the last twenty years. There are two crucial ingredients to the model: the...
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An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions
Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Public sector unionism grew rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s following the passage of state collective bargaining laws. During the last thirty years, public sector membership has grown at roughly the same rate as the overall workforce. This paper provides a descriptive overview of...
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Round Up The Usual Suspects: The Decline of Unions in The Private Sector, 1973-1998
Farber, Henry S.; Western, Bruce - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2000
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Inequality and Union Membership: The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes
Checchi, Daniele; Visser, Jelle; Werfhorst, Herman G. van de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we initially examine the impact of relative earnings position on union membership and show that...
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Union Organization in Great Britain
Bryson, Alex; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
Union membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, measured by employer recognition, has shrunk. Membership decline has been...
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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004 - What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 14 (2007) 2, pp. 118-118
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce....
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