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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations : individualism, democracy, and conflict

Norlander, Peter - 2019

The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to … described. An analysis of changes to state employment policies since 2000 shows an increasing ideologically driven divergence …. Instability and divergence are major features of the U.S. system of employee relations that require additional scrutiny. …

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Regulating the Fissured Workplace : The Notion of the ‘Employer’ in Chinese Labour Law

Zou, Mimi - 2018

The term 'fissured workplace' has been coined by David Weil to describe fundamental changes in the organisation of work arising from firms' competitive strategies in the 21st century. As Weil put it, fissurisation refers to 'both a form of employment (for example, temporary agency employment;...

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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...

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Firm-level employment, labour market reforms, and bank distress

Setzer, Ralph; Stieglitz, Moritz - 2019

We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firm-bank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013. While we find that labour market reforms are...

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Credit shocks, employment protection, and growth : firm-level evidence from Spain

Laeven, Luc; McAdam, Peter; Popov, Alexander - 2018

We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....

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The Sociology of Work and the work of sociologists in Portugal

Kovács, Ilona; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

A propose for this article is to present information on the emergence of the knowledge field of sociology of work and labor studies in Portugal. The period of 1974-1984 produced an interesting bibliography in the fields of social stratification, labor conflicts and social history. However, and...

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AN ETHICAL AND EMPLOYMENT QUAGMIRE: THE CASE OF JBS

Martin, Michael; French, Joseph J. - In: Review of Business and Finance Studies 2 (2011) 1, pp. 19-40

This case describes a hypothetical ethical dilemma involving labor relations at JBS Swift in Greeley, Colorado. The case describes the employment decisions faced by a hypothetical manager working at JBS Swift during the 2008 labor dispute over working conditions for Somali workers during...

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Sindicalismo: o fim do contra poder?

Sampaio, José João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Departing from a stable industrial relationship, supported by logic of economic massification and the correspondent legal framework, it is our objective to approach the new industrial relations environment, emerging from the modifications on the enterprise organisation models, towards the new...

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Impact of Labour Regulation on Unemployment: A Case Study of France, Germany, UK and USA

Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper examines the state of labour protection in four countries (UK, USA, France and Germany) during 1970-2006. It supports the contention of the legal-origin theory that UK and USA (common law countries) intervene less in the labour market and grant less protection to labourers. It also...

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Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - In: Handbook of Development Economics

This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that:(1)Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than they...

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