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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are...
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The Law-Technology Cycle and the Future of Work
Deakin, Simon - 2018
Features of the ‘fourth industrial revolution', such as platforms, AI and machine learning, pose challenges for the application of regulatory rules, in the area of labour law as elsewhere. However, today's digital technologies have their origins in earlier phases of industrialisation, and do...
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The impact of employment protection on the industrial wage structure
Heywood, John S.; O'Mahony, Mary; Siebert, William S.; … - 2018
This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...
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Robustness report on "Coercive contract enforcement: law and the labor market in nineteenth century industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)
Campbell, Douglas L.; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024
Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...
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The Duration of Indefinite Employment Contracts in the United States and England : An Historical Analysis
Jacoby, Sanford M. - 2022
Until the mid-nineteenth century, English and American courts held that indefinite employment contracts could not be terminated at will. The stance was a legacy of strictures found in the Statute of Artificers. But by the turn of the century, English and American law no longer agreed. In...
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The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation
Bagchi, Aditi - 2010
circumstances that many employees face as the product of unequal bargaining power. But bargaining power disparity does not capture … collective bargaining. Later amendments and judicial interpretations entrenched a strictly procedural interpretation of the Act …
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The Impact of Employment Law and Practices on Business and Society : The Significance of Worker Voice
Schipani, Cindy A. - 2017
This paper argues that employers should adopt practices that provide employees with opportunities to exercise voice. Time and time again, we see corporate scandals that could have been avoided if employees were encouraged to speak up when they saw problems in the workplace. Recent scandals...
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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy
Ryan, CJ - 2020
Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...
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Changes in collective bargaining in the U.K.
Addison, John T.; Siebert, William S. - 2002
Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701403
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Labour Rights Beyond Employment Status : Insights from the Competition Law Guidelines on Collective Bargaining
Rainone, Silvia - 2022
prevent the greater bargaining strength of the employed being disproportionately reflected in the terms and conditions … criteria of direction and control, appear no longer adequate to reach all those who perform work in situations of bargaining … centred on the idea that labour law should be refocused on those situations where the distribution of bargaining power between …
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