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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T. - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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Slip Sliding Away : Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain

Addison, John T. - 2010

changes in collective bargaining and worker representation in the private sector in Germany and Britain over the period 1998 …, the decline in collective bargaining is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, thus continuing a trend apparent since …

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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...

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Trust and Workplace Performance

Addison, John T. - 2019

This study explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey respondent's...

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Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance : New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey

Addison, John T. - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages : Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and...

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers' compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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Atypical Work : Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79

Addison, John T. - 2009

Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...

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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2021

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular...

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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany : The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

Addison, John T. - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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