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Assessing the legal value added of collective bargaining agreements

Martins, Pedro S.; Saraiva, Joana - 2019

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In this paper we propose a methodology to address this question: we compare the specific contents of collective agreements (except minimum wages) to their equivalent norms set by...

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The Regulation of Labor

Botero, Juan Carlos; Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; … - 2008

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...

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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017

This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

councils may be construed as largely beneficial. However, any such optimistic evaluation is heavily qualified by union … organization and in particular workplace unionism. Establishment union density seemingly blunts the performance of employee …

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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium

Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32

The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...

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Institutionalist versus distortionist views of labor market reforms : an investigation into the post-liberalized manufacturing sector in India

Bhandari, Anup Kumar; Arun Sudarsan - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 21 (2016) 41, pp. 63-72

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...

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[Rezension] Fehn, Rainer, Der strukturell bedingte Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa : Baden-Baden, Nomos Verl.-Ges., 1997

Hannowsky, Dirk - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 6, pp. 778-780

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Der strukturell bedingte Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa : Ursachen und Lösungsansätze

Fehn, Rainer - 1997 - 1. Aufl.

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...

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Social partners In the green transition of the EU

Hassel, Anke; Weil, Kilian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 92 (2023) 4, pp. 15-34

significant differences between the member states of the European Union. The paper concludes by discussing how social partnership … der Europäischen Union. Einerseits können die Sozialpartner dazu beitragen den Übergang zu niedrigeren Emissionen zu … Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Union. Abschließend erörtern wir, wie die Sozialpartnerschaft mit dem Dilemma umgeht, in den stark …

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