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Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...
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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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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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If individuals join a trade union their utility should increase. Therefore, union members can be expected to exhibit … sometimes indicates that union members have lower job satisfaction, but overall suggests the absence of a robust correlation …. This survey discusses empirically relevant determinants of the relationship between trade union membership and job …
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If individuals join a trade union their utility should increase. Therefore, union members can be expected to exhibit … sometimes indicates that union members have lower job satisfaction, but overall suggests the absence of a robust correlation …. This survey discusses empirically relevant determinants of the relationship between trade union membership and job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391457
In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to all firms and workers in the same sector. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions...
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We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by … non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among … employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow rate, that accounts for this decline. We show how union decline is …
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This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms 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 reforms, which is valuable in many...
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …
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