The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...

Das Instrument der Allgemeinverbindlicherklärung von Tarifverträgen spielt in Deutschland anders als in anderen europäischen Ländern nur eine sehr begrenzte Rolle. In den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten ist insbesondere die Zahl der allgemeinverbindlichen Lohntarifverträge stark...

Hungarian trade unions face both the direct consequences of economic downturn and the political challenges that are implied by the deterioration in employees’ and unions’ bargaining positions with regard to employers. This article presents the political responses of both militant and...

The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...

In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...

Alternative dispute resolution procedures such as arbitration and mediation are the most common methods for resolving wage, contract, and grievance disputes, but they lead to varying levels of success and acceptability of the outcome depending on their design. Some innovative procedures, not yet...

Der aktuelle Tarifkonflikt bei der Bahn führt wieder zu Streiks und starken Einschränkungen im Bahnverkehr. Der Beitrag fasst die Entwicklung und die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen des Konflikts zusammen und geht auf die verschiedenen Forderungen der Tarifparteien ein. Zudem stellt sich die...