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Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper … increases were relatively low as compared to productivity increases. Moreover it appears that the influence of strikes on wage …
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This paper provides a historical overview of the South African trade union movement, followed by a brief discussion of the labour market legislation and institutions formed since 1994. Thereafter, a detailed evaluation of the impact of trade unions, legislation, and institutions on labour market...
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representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first instance between works councils on the one hand and broadly equivalent trade …
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This is the first paper to estimate the effect of teacher strikes on student long-run educational attainment and labor … market outcomes. We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across provinces in … Argentina in a difference-in-difference framework to examine how exposure to teacher strikes during primary school affects long …
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The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers … examines the years 1960 to 1970, a critical period in Britain's postwar strikes' history. The mid-point of this decade marked … leadership in strikes incidence and industrial unrest. Workers made idle were an important symptom of the disease. In the study …
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´s willingness to participate in a strike. We develop and compare two signaling models of strikes: in one, firms are able to monitor …
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Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it … asymmetric information to prominence as a significant cause of strikes. After reviewing such long-standing potential explanations … with the union can lead to strikes. Additionally, power asymmetries, reputation-building, and internal union politics can …
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Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
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This article argues that more emphasis should be paid to the communicative power of trade unionism because it may constitute a starting point or a privileged standpoint which a trade union may use to counter its weakness regarding its other sources of power. Reviewing the trade union...
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Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...
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