This working paper provides an overview of government and trade union responses to the economic crisis in the financial sector. It provides a comparative presentation of trade union and government responses to the crisis with particular emphasis on the country-specific conditions and practices...

The paper uses a bilateral trade gravity model to evaluate the effects of freedom of association and collective bargaining (FACB) rights and democracy on exports, evaluating exports by labour intensity (using several classifications of industries by labour-intensity) for the 1993 to 1999 period....

This paper examines changes in unionization that have occurred over the last decade or so using individual level micro data on twenty seven of the thirty OECD countries, with particular emphasis on Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Micro-data is also used to model union...

This paper examines whether labor unions affect the bank performance during recently financial crisis. The empirical evidence from 228 largest banks around the globe indicate that the buy-and-hold returns of unionized banks are higher and the default probabilities are lower during the crisis...

The study discusses the impact of an investment protection chapter with Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement in the proposed transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on social and labour regulation and the autonomy of the social partners in regulating these matters through collective...

In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social partners' actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at Community level, efficient trade union actions in response to the strategies deployed by multinational firms at international level. In...