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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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Labor Laws and Innovation

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

We provide empirical evidence that strong dismissal laws appear to have a positive effect on the innovative pursuits of … innovation, we identify the effect of dismissal laws by exploiting the time-series variation generated by staggered country … stringent laws governing dismissal of employees. In addition, stringent dismissal laws disproportionately inﬂuence innovation in …

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Labour Rights Beyond Employment Status : Insights from the Competition Law Guidelines on Collective Bargaining

Rainone, Silvia - 2022

Originally, anchoring labour rights to the existence of a personal relationship of subordination was functional to prevent the greater bargaining strength of the employed being disproportionately reflected in the terms and conditions regulating the provision of labour. This does not seem anymore...

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Towards a Prohibition of the Derogation of Employment Rights

Cabrelli, David - 2012

In the fifty-sixth series of the Hamlyn Lectures (2004), Sir Bob Hepple applied his mind to particular structural problems facing UK employment law in the 21st century. One of the challenges which he identified was "the absence of a general principle that one may not derogate from certain core...

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Employment Rights in an Era of Individualised Employment

Anderson, Gordon J. - 2015

On 7 August 2007, Gordon Anderson delivered his inaugural lecture after becoming a professor in the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington. Gordon took as his theme the protection of employees employed on an individual contract of employment. Following the repeal of the award system by...

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Die Unfair Dismissal als Problem der Britischen Industrial Relations

Jansen, Gerhard - 2012

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The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation

Bagchi, Aditi - 2010

Although it is widely understood that employers and employees are not equally situated, we fail adequately to account for this inequality in the law governing their relationship. We can best understand this inequality in terms of status, which encompasses one's level of income, leisure and...

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An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives and the Delegation of Worker Authority

DeVaro, Jed - 2010

Traditionally, researchers have had difficulty testing the relationship between the degree of risk or uncertainty in workers' environments and incentive pay. The authors employ Prendergast's (2002) theory that incorporates the delegation of worker authority into the principal-agent model to...

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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

Siebert, Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2021

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...

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Employment protection : tough to scrap or tough to get

Bruegemann, Bjoern - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 117 (2007), pp. 386-415

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