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First Agreement Disputes and Public Policy in Canada.

Walker, J. - Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Research … - 1987

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Tarifeinheit, Tarifpluralität und Spartengewerkschaften: Ein Plädoyer für gesetzgeberische Zurückhaltung

Schnabel, Claus - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 64 (2015) 1, pp. 33-43

restore the traditional principle of one collective bargaining agreement per business in Germany that has been overturned by …

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Tarifeinheit per Gesetz – 10 Thesen zu den Plänen der Bundesregierung zur Wiedereinführung der Tarifeinheit

Henssler, Martin - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 64 (2015) 1, pp. 55-72

the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) and the Confederation of German Employers (BDA). Thus, Germany only has the …

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Tarifpluralität fünf Jahre nach dem BAG-Urteil

Bachmann, Ronald; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 64 (2015) 1, pp. 44-54

-unionism in Germany. We argue that since 2010, when the Federal Labour Court eased restrictions on multi-unionism, hardly any … consequences for small, mainly occupation-based, unions in Germany. Therefore, the bill does not seem to be a good instrument for … regulating labour relations in Germany. …

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Unions and investment in intangible capital : when workers and firms cannot commit to long-term contracts and capital investments are sunk, union power can reduce investment

Sulis, Giovanni - 2015

Although coverage of collective bargaining agreements has been declining for decades in most countries, it is still extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms' incentives to invest in capital, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017

We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending Gelbach's (2016) omitted variable bias decomposition procedure to obtain the contribution of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal...

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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and trust : evidence from cross-country data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...

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Evasive reform : informalisation in a liberalised economy with wage-setting unions

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Marjit, Sugata - 2004

We examine the impact of economic deregulation on employer evasion of union-mandated "formal" wage-contracts in an import-competing industry. We show that, if the state maintains industrial employment despite import liberalisation, through cheaper credit to firms, then employer evasion will...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap, the next stage of the analysis seeks to account for...

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Electoral democracy at work

Askenazy, Philippe; Breda, Thomas - 2020

We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...

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