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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations : individualism, democracy, and conflict
Norlander, Peter - 2019
The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to … described. An analysis of changes to state employment policies since 2000 shows an increasing ideologically driven divergence …. Instability and divergence are major features of the U.S. system of employee relations that require additional scrutiny. …
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Firm-level employment, labour market reforms, and bank distress
Setzer, Ralph; Stieglitz, Moritz - 2019
We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firm-bank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013. While we find that labour market reforms are...
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Credit shocks, employment protection, and growth : firm-level evidence from Spain
Laeven, Luc; McAdam, Peter; Popov, Alexander - 2018
We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....
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A atual reforma trabalhista : possibilidades, problemas e contradições
Campos, André Gambier - 2017
Since the 1930s, the Brazilian State has built a national system of labour relations. In the following decades, this system underwent many changes, as well the country itself (which became urbanized, industrialized etc.). At the present time, there is a new wave of changes in the labour...
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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms
Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017
This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...
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Labor-management relations and varieties of capitalism
Schneider, Martin - 2021
The varieties-of-capitalism (VoC) approach distinguishes liberal market economies (LMEs) such as the USA and coordinated market economies (CMEs) such as Germany based on institutional differences in terms of corporate governance, industrial relations, company relations as well as education and...
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Labor-management relations and varieties of capitalism
Schneider, Martin - 2021
The varieties-of-capitalism (VoC) approach distinguishes liberal market economies (LMEs) such as the USA and coordinated market economies (CMEs) such as Germany based on institutional differences in terms of corporate governance, industrial relations, company relations as well as education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619776
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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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Politics-business interaction paths
Belloc, Marianna; Pagano, Ugo - 2009
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923223
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The impact of market regulations on intra-European real exchange rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2013
We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...
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