Building on a unique survey of how Slovak firms adjust wages and prices, this paper studies the extent to which Slovak wages are rigid and the determinants for both nominal and real wage rigidity. Compared to other countries included in the survey, Slovakia has nominal base wage rigidity that is...

The paper studies the major institutional changes that are at the root of the increase in the west European unemployment rate in the last quartercentury from below 3 percent to 11 percent. The institutional characteristics of wage bargaining, the tax wedge and the legal rules hamper the...

Building on a unique survey of how Slovak firms adjust wages and prices, this paper studies the reduction of labour costs in two forms: base wage cuts and alternative margins for labour cost reduction. Anecdotal evidence suggests that wage-cutting by firms occurs more frequently in Slovakia than...

In many countries (e.g. Japan, China) it has been proved that a key-driven factor in increasing their economical development consists on employeesâ€(tm) attitude toward work. Based on the assumption, the main objective of this article is to compound a descriptive image on drivers and barriers...

This article has as start point the following question: “Why do we work?†Indentifying at least three different answers, I consider that the attitude throughout work can be shaped based on these issue. At the first level, the value of work is based on the assumption that by work, the...

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...

Spanish Abstract: En la sociedad colombiana contemporánea, al igual que sucede en muchos países del mundo, los-as jóvenes deben enfrentarse a una concepción del mundo del trabajo que ha cambiado radicalmente. En lugar de una rutina estable, de una carrera predecible, de la adhesión a una...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo central de este artículo es analizar la influencia del liderazgo sobre el clima organizacional. Se hace una revisión de los antecedentes del liderazgo, sus conceptos y las diferentes teorías propuestas por varios autores. Se estudia el clima organizacional, sus...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo presenta el resultado de la investigación realizada en el Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación (Icontec), sede comercial Bogotá, donde se correlacionaron dos variables: 1) Alienación y 2) Anomia, o conductas desviadas, con respecto a la...