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Disability and the unionized workplace
Ameri, Mason; Ali, Mohammad; Schur, Lisa A.; Kruse, … - 2019
The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996480
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Long-Term Unemployment or New Poverty : A Case for Trade Union Membership
Kokabian, PhD, Pejvak - 2010
the outcome of long-term unemployment which is the result of changing the nation’s socio-eco-political environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202780
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The Netherlands and the United Kingdom : A European Unemployment Miracle?
Nickell, Stephen John; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001
Unemployment rates in both the UK and the Netherlands have declined substantially since the early 1980s. This has been … a decline in equilibrium unemployment, the result of combinations of supply-oriented policies. The combinations are … Dutch unions were already cooperative, British unions were made to cooperate. The main overlap is in the popularity of part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152886
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariate competing-risks hazard model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316799
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Disability and the Unionized Workplace
Ameri, Mason - 2019
The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions …, supporting the voice model of unions. Overall the results indicate that while unions appear to help workers with disabilities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870231
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Trends in the employment of disabled people in Britain
Berthoud, Richard - 2011
The number of people claiming incapacity benefits increased rapidly to the mid 1990s, and has hardly reduced since then. This paper uses survey data to plot trends over time in the prevalence of disability, and in the employment rates of disabled people, in a way which is independent of, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288924
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Trends in the employment of disabled people in Britain
Berthoud, Richard - 2011
The number of people claiming incapacity benefits increased rapidly to the mid 1990s, and has hardly reduced since then. This paper uses survey data to plot trends over time in the prevalence of disability, and in the employment rates of disabled people, in a way which is independent of, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908345
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What do unions do to temporary employment?
Salvatori, Andrea - 2009
more likely to use temporary employment across Europe. To address the endogeneity of unions, I then use a British dataset … that unions contribute to creating contract duality in the labour market and thus do not limit the ability of firms to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269541
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Why has work effort become more intense?
Green, Francis - 2002
Effort-biased technological change and other explanations for work intensification are investigated. It is hypothesised that technological and organizational changes are one important source of work intensification and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290642
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Wages and ageing: is there evidence for the inverse-U profile?
Myck, Michał - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276038