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State substitution for the trade union good : the case of paid holiday entitlements
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
holidays is substantially larger than the union premium on wages. However, the premium fell with the introduction of a …
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Trade union membership and paid vacation in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Pannenberg, Markus - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-26
In Germany, dependent employees take almost 30 days of paid vacation annually. We enquire whether an individual's trade … union membership affects the duration of vacation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period … day of vacation per year. Estimations exploiting the panel structure of our data suggest that a smaller part of this …
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Political spillovers of worker representation: with or without workplace democracy?
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025
A series of studies show that unions and works councils have an influence on workers' political activities and attitudes. However, at issue are the transmission channels through which worker representation impacts workers' political activities and attitudes. This article discusses from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015198530
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Political spillovers of worker representation : with or without workplace democracy?
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025
A series of studies show that unions and works councils have an influence on workers' political activities and attitudes. However, at issue are the transmission channels through which worker representation impacts workers' political activities and attitudes. This article discusses from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015207555
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Rebalancing unemployment benefits in a unionized labour market
Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen - 1997
The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two benefit levels, one for short-term and one for long-term unemployed, and a rule determining whether an unemployed is short- or long-term. The purpose of this extension is...
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Who Captures the Rents from Unionization? Insights from Multiemployer Pension Plans
Johnsen, D. Bruce - 2016
From 1945 to 2010 the proportion of private-sector workers covered by collective bargaining agreements declined from 36% to a once unthinkable 6.9%. This decline raises the question of how well labor unions serve their rank and file. This study addresses the economics of labor unions in an...
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Union bargaining power and the amenity-wage tradeoff
Lagos, Lorenzo - 2024
This paper studies the relation between the wage and amenity components of compensation under collective bargaining. Using the universe of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in Brazil, I augment information on workers' wages with the comprehensive set of amenities codified in the text of...
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The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age : A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Ellis, Benjamin - 2015
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of American and Japanese labor law on the relative bargaining power of the labor and management within the context of the new global economy based on information technology. We begin by providing a simple economic definition of bargaining power...
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The Labor Movement Needs a Twenty-First Century Committee for Industrial Organization
Craver, Charles B. - 2008
Following the enactment of the NLRA in 1935, American Federation of Labor craft unions had difficulty organizing persons employed in manufacturing industries since most failed to fit within the jurisdictions of particular unions. The AFL formed the Committee for Industrial Organization to...
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Trade Union Rights in Russia : Past and Present
Chernyaeva, Daria V. - 2011
Trade union rights have a considerably long history in Russia. First trade unions were organized as early as in the XIX century, but it was not earlier than 1906, when the first legislative steps in regard to trade union recognition were made. In the legislation there was a particular procedure...
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