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It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long … environment will lead unions not only to contest fewer elections but also to focus on larger potential bargaining units and on …
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In the larger policy debate over the role of public sector unions, there is a tendency to blur the lines between the …. Public sector unions function as a monopoly provider of labor within a bureaucratic-political realm. Public sector unionism …
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OPTIMThe conservative central banker has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...
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initial imprinting of the model, which stemmed from the circumstances in which the trade unions were reconstituted at the end … ideological lines, and within a context of enduring voluntarism and low institutionalisation, the Italian trade unions, which …
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One of the best keep secrets in New York law is that most labor unions are immune from legal liability simply because … they are organized as an unincorporated association. In jurisdictions such as New York, which follow common law, unions … little sense today, particularly when applied to labor unions. Public policy is certainly not furthered by blind obedience to …
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The "conservative central banker" has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...
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Subcontracting — the practice of using intermediaries to contract workers, whether through temp agencies, manpower agencies, franchise, or other multilayered contracting — is an increasingly popular pattern of employment worldwide. Whether justified from a business perspective or not,...
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, captivated the press, and energized the public. For good reason. The campaigns upend conventional wisdom about what unions do …
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Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...
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Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a detailed decomposition approach based on Fairlie (2005). Using linked...
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