This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that:(1)Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than they...

Mit dieser Ausarbeitung moechten wir die Betriebsverhandlungen in Frankreich betrachten und besonders auf einen Aspekt der industriellen Beziehungen Bezug nehmen, der von der soziologischen Forschung bisher nur wenig behandelt wurde. Die Beauftragung eines Angestellten mit dem Aushandeln einer...

Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Walther Müller-Jentschs Soziologie industrieller Beziehungen auseinander. Er argumentiert, dass die Transformation des einstigen Sozialkapitalismus zwei Welten sozialer Regulation hervorgebracht hat, deren „Grenzregime“ zunehmend umkämpft ist. Es handelt sich, so...

Die nachstehende Replik geht nach einer Präzisierung des Konzepts der Konfliktpartnerschaft auf die wesentlichen Kritikpunkte ein, die die Beiträger zur Kontroverse Konfliktpartnerschaft erhoben haben. Sie greift deren Hinweise auf die Fragmentierung der deutschen industriellen Beziehungen in...

This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that: (1) Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than...

Is there, even in fields which are traditionally devoted to the State, a space of intervention for institutions like the Countries ? Such a question is examined in this article through the original experiment of Nord - Pas-de-Calais regarding to incentives to the reduction of the working time....

This paper aims at describing the issue of undeclared work in the Czech Republic and to explain the burdens it represents for the national economy. It also describes what measures can be undertaken in order to tackle undeclared work and uses some real-life examples to illustrate their outcomes....

In this paper we propose a dynamic partial equilibrium model in order to explain the search behaviour of low-skilled non employed workers, when their employability decreases as the unemployment spell lengthens. We show that the unemployed react to a reduction in their current search...

A criticism often addressed to the French system of collective bargaining is that it would respond to a logic of protection of the rights of the insiders and would attribute to the state the burden of outsiders. The economic recession which explodes in 2008 is a significant experience since the...

This paper gives an overview of the recent labor market reform in Italy. We focus on the trade-off underlying the spirit of the reform: to increase the use of open-ended contracts the reform reduced the opportunity of (mis)using of temporary contracts and concurrently reduced the costs of...