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Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations

Sleigh, Stephen R. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book's essays analyze innovative responses by unions, corporations and governments to job loss caused by economic …

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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly … unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

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Does labor contract completeness drive unionization? Experimental evidence

Flynn, Sean Masaki; Donnelly, Michael - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 4, pp. 445-454

Flynn (2005) proposes that the degree to which labor contracts are complete may be a major driving force behind the propensity of employees to unionize. We find behavior consistent with this hypothesis in an experimental production game in which subjects are assigned to playing either employers...

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Worker Representatives

Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - 2024

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

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Are there gains to joining a union? Evidence from Mexico

Gutiérrez Rufrancos, Héctor Elías - 2019

sug- gests that although union density may be in decline, unions still have an important role to play in voicing worker …

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Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs

Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022

Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...

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Why has work effort become more intense?

Green, Francis - 2002

Effort-biased technological change and other explanations for work intensification are investigated. It is hypothesised that technological and organizational changes are one important source of work intensification and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in the...

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Are there gains to joining a union? : evidence from Mexico

Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector - 2019

sug- gests that although union density may be in decline, unions still have an important role to play in voicing worker …

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Damiani, Mirella; Pompei, Fabrizio; Ricci, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The authors analyzed the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) in a sample of Italian manufacturing and service firms and presented standard quantile estimates to investigate heterogeneity in pay-performance impacts on labor productivity and wages. In a second stage, the endogeneity of PRP was...

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Wages and Labour Productivity: the role of Performance-Related Pay in Italian firms

Damiani, Mirella; Pompei, Fabrizio; Ricci, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper analyses the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) agreements on labour productivity and wages. Its main contribution is thus to investigate the effects of PRP on both dimensions, i.e. productivity and distribution, whereas most of the studies of related literature are restricted to...

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