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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility : the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Labour Markets, Firms and Institutions : Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Gahan, Peter G. - 2012

The study of the employment relation has always held a somewhat ambiguous position within the field of economics. The nature of labour market adjustment processes and unique aspects of the employment relation have posed problems for standard economic theories and have limited the use of formal...

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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

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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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The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation

Bagchi, Aditi - 2010

for this inequality in the law governing their relationship. We can best understand this inequality in terms of status … the moral problem raised by inequality in the employment relation, and thus, it has failed to inspire any meaningful … attempt to address that inequality. By contrast, a status-based approach would motivate several common sense doctrinal changes …

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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2021

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...

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The future of the French trade unions

Andolfatto, Dominique; Labbé, Dominique - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 341-352

This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the decline of collective actions; the...

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Unions in Britain : merely on the margins or on the cusp of a comeback?

Gall, Gregor - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 323-340

This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse whether collectively they remain on the margins of influence in the economy and society or whether, given and because of the crisis of neoliberalism, they may be on the cusp of a...

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A short history of flexible hours - historical baselines of working time policy in Germany

Promberger, Markus - 2021

This paper analyses the structures and patterns, dimensions and interest relations behind 200 years of working time negotiations and conflicts, based on historical and contemporary literature and research, mainly but not exclusively in Germany. One main thesis is that 'new' flexibilization...

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