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Voice at Work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
indicate that worker representation facilitates information sharing rather than boosting labor's power …
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Voice at work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
indicate that worker representation facilitates information sharing rather than boosting labor's power. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484549
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How Industrial Relations Affects Plant Performance : The Case Of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M.; Leonard, Jonathan S.; Pilarski, Adam M. - 2015
This analysis examines how changes in major industrial relations policies affected productivity over the years 1974-91 at one of the most important manufacturing plants in the United States. The authors find that productivity fell greatly, both in percentage terms and in absolute dollars, during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124034
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How Industrial Relations Affects Plant Performance : The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
Kleiner, Morris M.; Leonard, Jonathan S.; Pilarski, Adam M. - 2015
This analysis examines how changes in major industrial relations policies affected productivity over the years 1974-91 at one of the most important manufacturing plants in the United States. The authors find that productivity fell greatly, both in percentage terms and in absolute dollars, during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124217
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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We give an overview of the "German model" of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany outsources collective bargaining to the sectoral level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362031
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End-Users, Public Services, and Industrial Relations : The Restructuring of Social Services in Ontario
Hickey, Robert - 2013
remaining provincially-run institutions in 2009. Second, at the organizational level, end-users have displaced the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089612
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Systems of Employee Representation : The US Report
Lobel, Orly - 2014
years, US labor advocates have looked upon those representations systems with suspicion. The reasons for this suspicion are … historical: US employee-representation systems have their roots in company-dominated unions that the National Labor Relations Act … was designed to prohibit. The National Labor Relations Board, the independent agency created by the New Deal Congress to …
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Employee Voice in the Unipolar World a Comparative Empirical Study of Trends in Finland and India
Chakraborty, Ranabir - 2021
In this paper, the author questions the basic notion that the world over, the industrial relations systems (IRSs) are converging (towards the ‘liberal market economy’ configuration). The author argues that even when faced with a similar economic and business crisis, different economies can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242017
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316913
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Fair Labor Association
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2021
The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227296