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Industrial Relations in Multinational Companies (MNCs) : Double Breasting and Trade Union Avoidance in Ireland

Gunnigle, Patrick - 2009

This working paper addresses the incidence of double breasting as a means of trade union avoidance in multinational companies. Double breasting is a phenomenon whereby multi-establishment firms concurrently operate union and non-union facilities. Drawing on survey findings from the largest and...

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Labour market and collective bargaining in Iceland : sharing the spoils without spoiling the shares

Sila, Urban - 2017

Iceland has high living standards, low poverty, high inclusiveness and one of the most sustainable pension systems. It is the most highly unionised country in the OECD and, in the past, successful social pacts have protected the lowest paid workers during crises, and on occasion helped fight...

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Atypische Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft (Atypical employment - Introduction)

Keller, Berndt; Nienhueser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14

Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...

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Ordinary Atypical Workers, Participation within the Firm and Innovation: A Theoretical Endeavor and Empirical Outlook

Torka, Nicole; Looise, Jan Kees; Zagelmeyer, Stefan - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 3, pp. 221-239

firm, and innovation. How, it must be asked, can and will atypical workers contribute to innovation through participation … investigated: atypical work (e.g., self-employed, agency workers, and workers with a fixed-term contract), participation within the … within the firm or, from another angle, how can participation within the firm contribute to atypical workers willingness to …

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Abilities and Skills as Factors Explaining the Differences in Women Entrepreneurship (Habilidades y Destrezas como Factores que Explican las Diferencias en la Capacidad Empresarial...

Manzanera-Román, Salvador - 2017

characterize and determine the type of female entrepreneurship (typology, sector, size, innovation, creativity). Methodologically …

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Knowledge and Female Entrepreneurship : A Competence and Social Dimension (Conocimiento E Iniciativas Empresariales Femeninas: Competencia Y Dimensión Social)

García Palma, Maria - 2017

English Abstract: This paper, the result of a broader research on female entrepreneurship, aims to analyze the competence dimension of knowledge on women entrepreneurs. The method used is qualitative, comparatively analyzing the speech and enterprising entrepreneurs develop knowledge about and...

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The Great Resignation, Unemployment, and Underemployment in the US : A Study of Labor Market Segmentation

Lambert, Thomas E. - 2022

trend of lower female labor force participation; the liberating experience of not working at all or to work from home …

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Multi-Unionism and the Performance of Firms

Dugardin, Fabien-Antoine - 2020

This paper examines the relationship between profitability, proxied by the return on assets, and the number of labor unions within firms. I show that the profitability of firms is lower in firms with multiple labor unions than in firms with a single labor union. The union wage premium increases...

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing: Eine Szenariostudie zur Akzeptanz von Outsourcing-Massnahmen in der Personalauswahl

Giardini, Angelo; Kabst, Ruediger - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 22 (2008) 4, pp. 370-370

Mit dem Outsourcing von Personalfunktionen und -prozessen wird in der Unternehmenspraxis versucht, Kosten- und Flexibilisierungsvorteile zu generieren. Waehrend die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung zu den Determinanten von Outsourcing-Aktivitaeten weit vorangeschritten ist, sind empirische...

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Union Organisation of Employees in Atypical and Precarious Work in Italy

Leonardi, Salvo - In: International Journal of Action Research 4 (2008) 3, pp. 203-203

European trade unions are facing a very serious crisis of identity and strategy. Probably the worst for a long time. Practically all the principal organisations appear to be in serious difficulty in intercepting the new typologies of employment relationships; in interpreting their new identity...

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