Summary Employment and activity rates in the new EU Member States (NMS) declined significantly up to the early 2000s and started to increase along with strong GDP growth thereafter. Job losses following the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis varied substantially across countries and...

Der Beitrag skizziert die Entwicklung der Arbeitsbeziehungen in Deutschland seit dem erstmaligen Erscheinen der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ aus arbeitsrechtlichem Blickwinkel. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es im Koalitionsrecht, im Tarifvertragsrecht, im Arbeitskampfrecht und im...

This study provides the first econometric analysis on the dynamic dimension of establishment-level codetermination in Germany. We hypothesize that learning implies a change in the nature and scope of codetermination over time. Using unique data from small- and medium-sized establishments, our...

This paper looks at the causes of rural conflict in 1930s Spain. Rather than stressing bottom-up forces of mobilisation linked to poor harvests and rural unemployment or the inability of the state to enforce reformist legislation, this paper explores the role of state policy in sorting out the...

L’A. dedica attenzione ai cambiamenti apportati dal Trattato di Lisbona sia sul versante dei diritti sociali sia sul versante della concorrenza. Finora si è pensato che il diritto del lavoro continuasse a cedere rispetto al diritto commerciale. Molti erano i segnali che andavano in questa...

The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...

Hungarian trade unions face both the direct consequences of economic downturn and the political challenges that are implied by the deterioration in employees’ and unions’ bargaining positions with regard to employers. This article presents the political re-sponses of both militant and...

We provide evidence on the potential for reforms in labour law to reverse deunionization trends by relating an index of the favorability to unions of Canadian provincial labour relations statutes to changes in provincial union density rates between 1981 and 2012. The results suggest that...

The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...