This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

The road forward for labor relations policy lies not through Washington D.C. but through state capitols. Stifling federal labor law orthodoxy grips the private sector union movement, even as the percentage of represented employees falls toward the vanishing point. 60 years after the Taft-Hartley...