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Soft Means and Hard Challenges : Fundamental Discrepancies and the Promise of Non-Binding Arbitration for International Framework Agreements

Rosado Marzán, César F. - 2014

Globalization has led to union decline almost universally across the world's capitalist democracies. But despite globalization, global labor unions have been able to sign International Framework Agreements (“IFAs”) with more than 110 multinational corporations that cover about 9 million...

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Regulating Unions and Collective Bargaining

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn - 2014

In this chapter, we present an outline of the economic analysis of the regulation of unions and collective bargaining. We begin with the simple model of the market for union services and analyze regulations that may increase or decrease either the demand or supply for union representation. In...

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Employment protection legislation, labor courts, and effective firing costs

Jimeno, Juan F.; Martínez-Matute, Marta; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-26

In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...

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Institutionalist versus distortionist views of labor market reforms : an investigation into the post-liberalized manufacturing sector in India

Bhandari, Anup Kumar; Arun Sudarsan - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 21 (2016) 41, pp. 63-72

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...

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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium

Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32

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...

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30,000 minimum wages : the eonomic effects of collective bargaining extensions

Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

Many governments extend the coverage of collective agreements to workers and employ- ers that were not involved in their bargaining. These extensions may address coordination issues but may also distort competition by imposing sector-specific minimum wages and other work conditions that are not...

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Assessing the legal value added of collective bargaining agreements

Martins, Pedro S.; Saraiva, Joana - 2019

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In this paper we propose a methodology to address this question: we compare the specific contents of collective agreements (except minimum wages) to their equivalent norms set by...

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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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The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union Density Rates: Evidence from Canadian Provinces.

Scott Legree, Tammy Schirle, Mikal Skuterud - Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics - 2014

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...

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Virtual vs. Standard Strike: An Experiment

Innocenti, Alessandro; Nicita, Antonio - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2009

In this paper we compare - in the laboratory - stoppage and virtual strike. Our experiment confirms that higher wages … average total payoffs are higher under virtual strike than under standard strike. However, when standard strike is associated … than virtual strike. It is unclear whether this behavior re?ects reciprocity or other forms of social preferences. However …

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