A tanulmány azt vizsgálja, hogy a válság első évében a magyar vállalatok milyen mértékben nyúltak a tömeges elbocsátások mellett vagy helyett olyan puhább módszerekhez, mint amilyen a munkaidő rövidítése vagy a bérek csökkentése. A 2008 és 2009 májusára vonatkozó...

According to the welfare magnet hypothesis, migrants with a high likelihood of claiming benefits cluster in the most generous welfare systems. After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries can thus be expected to reduce public benefits in order...

A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions — to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...

La investigación enfoca el problema de cobertura de la seguridad socialdesde la perspectiva del costo social para las familias y el Estado del no pagode la porción social del salario, a gran número de trabajadores en nuestropaís. Al asociar este problema con las condiciones específicas de...

En el presente trabajo estudiamos los determinantes económicos e institucionales en la relación mercado de trabajo y desigualdad salarial en el Gran Buenos Aires durante el período 1980-1999. La hipótesis principal de este trabajo es que las variaciones en los niveles de desigualdad salarial...

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...