Le present article etudie la dynamique et l'impact des deux campagnes menees par les syndicats aux Pays-Bas pour la reduction du temps de travail (1983-86 et 1994-97). Il examine l'effet de la reduction de la duree du travail sur la capacite et la volonte des syndicats de maintenir une politique...

We investigate the empirical determinants of social pacts over the 1970–2004 period. We adopt a political economy approach, showing that governments are more likely to sign a pact when the cost of a conflict with trade unions is relatively larger. Such a cost depends on macroeconomic variables...

This essay reviews half a century of developments in bargaining coverage, the structure of bargaining, and bargaining coordination respectively in thirty countries, with an emphasis on the last twenty years. Under coverage or the extent of collective bargaining and pay setting, the connection...

The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Social Pacts in Europe presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of...

Economists have largely neglected the analysis of the relevant factors that induce policymakers and trade unions to sign social pacts, despite their clear implications for economic policies and the functioning of labour markets. In this paper we fill this gap. We build a simple theoretical...

La necessità di comprendere nella storia dell’impresa il tema del welfare rappresenta una finalità alquanto ambiziosa. Essa nasce da una molteplicità di suggestioni. A cominciare dalla sorprendente e duratura offerta di opere di sociali e di assistenza a favore dei propri addetti, oltre che...

In recent years, parallel trends of organizational restructuring have become manifest among trade unions. Sharing similar experiences of stagnant membership and falling density rates, coupled with structural shifts in employment from industry to services and a growing pressure to attend to the...

<DIV>The Dutch polder model- recently dubbed a "success story" by Bill Clinton and Jacques Delors - plays a prominent role in current discussions about possibilities for a new "capitalism with a social face", and appeals to experts all over the world. Just ten years ago the Swedish sociologist Göran...</div>