This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the growth and endurance of the piquetero social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed to the...

This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualised or collective wage...

We give an overview of the "German model" of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany outsources collective bargaining to the sectoral level,...

We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates from fixed effects regressions on a panel of organisations reveal that virtuous leadership is...

Die deutschen Arbeitsbeziehungen zeichnen sich - gerade auch im internationalen Vergleich - durch ein komplexes Geflecht unterschiedlicher Akteure, Ebenen und Institutionen der kollektiven Interessenvertretung aus. Im Zentrum des Beitrags steht ein besonders komplexes Mehrebensystem: die...

Tarifabweichungen gehören mittlerweile in den deutschen Industriebranchen zum Kernbestand des Tarifsystems. Waren ihre Bewertungen früher stark umstritten, so scheint heute der Pulverdampf weitgehend verflogen. Tarifabweichungen sind in den Industriebranchen - und dort vor allem auch in der...

In diesem Policy-Brief werden Thesen und Handlungsempfehlungen formuliert, die sich mit den Neuerungen und damit einhergehenden Spannungsfeldern hinsichtlich der Ausweitung mobiler Arbeit im Zuge der COVID-19-Krise aus der Perspektive von Betriebsrät_innen befassen. Die empirischen Befunde...

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...

It is not possible for a formal employment contract to detail everything an employee should do and when. Informal relationships, in particular trust, allow managers to arrange a business in a more productive way; high-trust firms are both more profitable and faster growing. For example, if they...