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The Quality of Labor Relations and Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier J.; Philippon, Thomas - 2004

In countries where wages are primarily set by collective bargaining, the effects on unemployment of changes in the … relations. In this paper, we examine the role this quality of labor relations has played in the evolution of unemployment across … relations have experienced higher unemployment. This conclusion remains even after controlling for labor institutions …

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End-Users, Public Services, and Industrial Relations : The Restructuring of Social Services in Ontario

Hickey, Robert - 2013

The global financial crisis beginning in 2008 resulted in a ballooning public debt and government efforts to constrain public expenditures. Responses to the financial crisis and its impact on human services in Ontario demonstrate the complex interactions across key actors – employers,...

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Systems of Employee Representation : The US Report

Lobel, Orly - 2014

Although employee-representation systems coexist with a collective-bargaining framework in continental Europe for many years, US labor advocates have looked upon those representations systems with suspicion. The reasons for this suspicion are historical: US employee-representation systems have...

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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Worker representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.

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Frontal assault versus incremental change : a comparison of collective bargaining in Portugal and the Netherlands

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Parlevliet, Jante - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-26

Collective bargaining has come under renewed scrutiny, especially in Southern European countries, which rely predominantly on sectoral bargaining supported by administrative extensions of collective agreements. Following the global financial crisis, some of these countries have implemented...

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The relationship between union membership and net fiscal impact

Sojourner, Aaron; Pacas, José - 2018

This paper develops the first evidence on how individuals' union membership status affects their net fiscal impact, the difference between taxes they pay and cost of public benefits they receive, enriching our understanding of how labor relations interacts with public economics. Current...

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Collective bargaining through the magnifying glass : a comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Parlevliet, Jante - 2017

This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of sector-level bargaining systems and their role for labour market performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining systems, the Netherlands and Portugal, and document a number of features that may affect labour...

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Collective bargaining in developing countries : negotiating work rules at the firm level instead of the industry level could lead to productivity gains

Lamarche, Carlos - 2015

Because theoretical arguments differ on the economic impact of collective bargaining agreements in developing countries, empirical studies are needed to provide greater clarity. Recent empirical studies for some Latin American countries have examined whether industry- or firm-level collective...

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The Force of Law on Collective Bargaining : Empirical Research and Labor Law Reform

Dannin, Ellen; Singh, Gangaram - 2003

Labor law reform is passionately debated among union activists and officials, labor economists, and industrial relations scholars. Despite the passion of the debate, it is based on almost no empirical evidence as to the operation of variations on law. Rather, for the most part it has been based...

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