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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- PART 1: Comparative employment relations -- 1. Introduction: global challenges at work -- The...
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Since 1990, foreign direct investment (FDI) has quickened economic modernization in Central Europe. Labour Relations - as an essential factor in the organization of labour and production - have already been impacted upon by this modernization. On the basis of an analysis of nine corporations,...
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITORIAL OVERVIEW -- 1 SUSTAINABILITY AND UNIONS: INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION ACTIONTO IMPLEMENT SUSTAINABILITY NORMS AT CORPORATE LEVEL -- 2 SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL: BUILDING AND WOOD...
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The conservative central banker has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...
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This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring...
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This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...
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Zwischen 1972 und 2002 sind in der deutschen Sozialpolitik die Verflechtungen der Politiker mit dem Bereich der gesellschaftlichen Interessenträger zurückgegangen. Anhand einer Analyse der Karrieren der Mitglieder des Bundestagsausschusses für Arbeit und Sozialordnung zeigt das Papier, dass...
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Theoretische und empirische Hinweise deuten darauf hin, dass die Umsetzung eines keynesianischen Wirtschaftskonzepts Wachstum und Beschäftigung über eine Koordinierung der Geld-, Lohn- und Fiskalpolitik nennenswert steigern kann. Mit dem vorliegenden Text wird geprüft, inwieweit das...
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Considering the degree of political and economic integration in Europe, trade unions can no longer stick to purely national strategies. Since the 1980s the key political projects of European integration have played a major role to force the neoliberal reorganisation of European capitalism...
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Der japanische Arbeitsmarkt, der traditionell durch eine starke interne Orientierung geprägt war, ist in den letzten Jahren mit starkem Anpassungsdruck konfrontiert worden. Wie in anderen Industrieländern lässt sich die Entwicklung durch Flexibilisierung und Deregulierung kennzeichnen. Da die...
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