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Labour Market Deregulation and the Decline of Labour Power in North America and Western Europe
Peters, John - 2010
The goal of this article is to provide a critical evaluation of what has happened to organized labour and labour markets since 1980. It examines the impacts of labour market deregulation on wage share and pay standardization. It also explores how recent economic changes have weakened organized...
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Perspectives on social pacts in Spain : social dialogue and the social partners
Rohlfer, Sylvia - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 1, pp. 49-65
The return of social pacts in the context of the current economic crisis, as seen in southern European countries, invites the revival of the discussion about the development of social dialogue practice in its specific context. Based on a longitudinal analysis we examine the agenda of Spanish...
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Labour Share, Employment Protection, and Unions in European Economies
Pompei, Fabrizio - 2018
We analyse the role that the liberalisation of temporary contracts plays in labour share in some EU countries. The empirical analysis mainly relies on the EUKLEMS database and applies a difference-in-difference approach. Our results, focused on periods of different length (1996–2007 and...
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Robots and worker voice: an empirical exploration
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood. Specifically, there is little evidence on how the nature of industrial relations shapes technological choices at the workplace level. Using a large sample of more than 20000 European...
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When Union Members in a Members-Only Non-Majority Union (MONMU) Want Weingarten Rights : How High Will the Blue Eagle Fly?
O'Brien, Christine Neylon - 2008
This paper explores whether union members in a members-only non-majority union (MONMU) are entitled to a Weingarten right, that is, the right to request a union representative at a workplace investigatory interview that might reasonably lead to discipline. The National Labor Relations Board...
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Still ‘Regime Competition?’ Trade Unions and Multinational Restructuring in Europe
Pulignano, Valeria - 2010
This article studies trade unions' response to transnational change in a large multinational corporation within the motor industry in Europe. We show how the use of the European Works Councils (EWCs) as a forum for European negotiation did not counter the management's effort to whipsaw trade...
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Exclusion of Unionized Workers from Employment Standards Law
Fairey, David B. - 2010
The technique of permitting unions to derogations from core employment standards has been increasingly advocated as a means of making labour law more flexible while still protecting workers since the union is considered to bring countervailing power in support of workers' preferences. The new...
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The impact of market regulations on intra-European real exchange rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2013
We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...
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Structural Reforms and Growth : Product and Labor Market Deregulations
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W. - 2006
The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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Collective Bargaining and Labour Market Regulation in Europe
Leonard, Evelyne - 2014
What is the role played by collective bargaining in the regulation of the labour market in the context of European … states of the European Union represent an innovation in the joint regulation of the labour market. The notion of joint … regulation is defined in reference to Reynaud (1989, 2001), as sets of rules jointly defined by unions, employers and, in some …
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