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Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894: New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism

Currie, Janet; Ferrie, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

information on each state's legal environment and unique strike-level data on over 12,000 labor disputes between 1881 and 1894. We … find that the law affected strike costs and strike outcomes, though not always in the anticipated directions. For example …, laws outlawing blacklisting were associated with the increased use of strike breakers, while the legalization of unions …

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High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa

Magruder, Jeremy R. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 3, pp. 138-66

South Africa has very high unemployment, yet few adults work informally in small firms. This paper tests whether centralized bargaining, by which unionized large firms extend arbitration agreements to nonunionized smaller firms, contributes to this problem. While local labor market...

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Absenteeism in Apprenticeships: What Role Do Works Councils Play?

Pfeifer, Harald - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014

This paper examines the influence of works councils on apprenticesÕ absence from the workplace in Germany. The analysis draws on merged administrative and survey data, including information on the cumulated days apprentices are absent from work due to sickness. On average, apprentices are...

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Arbeit – Politik – Recht: Das Recht(ssystem) als Forschungsdesiderat in den Arbeitsbeziehungen – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft

Rehder, Britta; Vogel, Berthold - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 22 (2015) 1, pp. 8-12

Das deutsche System der industriellen Beziehungen weist im internationalen Vergleich gemeinhin ein hohes Mass an Verrechtlichung auf. Umso ueberraschender ist der Umstand, dass das Recht und seine Akteure, Institutionen und Verfahren in der Forschung ueber Arbeitsbeziehungen seit Jahrzehnten...

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Die Auswirkungen der EuGH-Rechtsprechung auf das Tarifvertragssystem in Deutschland (The impact of the case law of the European Court of Justice on the collective bargaining system...

Seikel, Daniel; Absenger, Nadine - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 22 (2015) 1, pp. 33-50

restricts the rights and room for manoeuvre of social partners, affecting the right to strike as well as specific regulations in …

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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law

Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...

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Pre-litigation Mediation as a Privacy Policy: Exploring the Interaction of Economics and Privacy

Costello, Thomas J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Pre-litigation mediation is a perfect example of the economic trade-offs that exist in privacy policy. In pre-litigation mediation, costs and confidentiality work independently. However, there is a precarious balance that exists where, if either confidentiality or cost became less effective the...

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...

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Employment Protection Reform, Enforcement in Collective Agreements and Worker Flows

Heyman, Fredrik; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

Differential enforcement of employment protection by explicit design of the legislation, for example through exemptions for small firms, has been exploited in a growing body of research. However, little is known about the effects of differential enforcement that is not defined by the letter of...

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STUDIU DE IMPACT PRIVIND REFORMELE LEGISLATIEI MUNCII ÎN ROMÂNIA

DIMITRIU, Raluca; TICLEA, Tiberiu; CHIVU, Luminita; … - Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE), … - 2013

Romanian labour and industrial relations law has undergone wide-ranging changes in recent years. The Social Dialogue Law No. 62/2011 repealed and replaced several laws regulating industrial relations, while the Romanian Labour Code was extensively modified through the Law No. 40/2011. This...

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