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State substitution for the trade union good : the case of paid holiday entitlements

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

holidays is substantially larger than the union premium on wages. However, the premium fell with the introduction of a …

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Paid vacation use : the role of works councils

Goerke, Laszlo; Jeworrek, Sabrina - 2016

We investigate the relationship between co-determination at the plant level and paid vacation in Germany. From a legal … perspective, works councils have no impact on vacation entitlements, but they can affect their use. Employing data from the German … almost two additional days of paid vacation annually, relative to employees in an establishment without such institution. The …

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FLSA Working Hours Reform : Worker Well-Being Effects in an Economic Framework

Golden, Lonnie - 2015

A model is developed to predict the effects of recently proposed amendments to the FLSA workweek and overtime provisions. It contrasts allowing compensatory time for overtime pay for private non-exempt employees to “rights to request” reduced hours. It finds that hours demanded are likely to...

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More or Less Fair? FLSA Overtime Law and Workers' Preferences Regarding Reduced Work Time and Comp Time versus Pay

Golden, Lonnie - 2008

This paper addresses the on-going controversy regarding whether to allow private sector employers to substitute compensatory (comp) time for premium pay for workers' overtime work hours. It employs data from a unique survey that actually asked over 800 workers their preference for pay vs. future...

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Rebalancing unemployment benefits in a unionized labour market

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen - 1997

The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two benefit levels, one for short-term and one for long-term unemployed, and a rule determining whether an unemployed is short- or long-term. The purpose of this extension is...

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