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What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1992

Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market … greatly. State-owned enterprises reduced employment even absent privatization, producing sizeable joblessness and eliminating … massive vacancies. The dispersion of wages increased substantially in Hungary and Poland though not in Czechoslovakia. My …

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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations

Appelbaum, Eileen - 2003

This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic...

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Unionization and Employment Behavior

Blanchflower, David G. - 1989

Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new British data set and shows that, even after the addition...

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The Impact of Industrial Relations Legislation on British Union Density

Freeman, Richard - 1989

The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s density rose steadily, making the United Kingdom the most heavily organized large OECD country. In the 1980s, by contrast, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a...

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Employer Behavior in the Face of Union Organizing Drives

Freeman, Richard B. - 1988

The direct role of employers in union organizing has long been a neglected part of the union organizing literature. In this study we examine the determinants and consequences of employer behavior when faced with an organizing drive. Our principal substantive findings are: - that there is a...

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The Impact Of New Unionization On Wages And Working Conditions : A Longitudinal Study Of Establishments Under NLRB Elections

Freeman, Richard B. - 1988

This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...

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Seniority Rules and the Gains from Union Organization

Tracy, Joseph S. - 1986

This paper examines the optimality of several seniority provisions which are common to U.S. union contracts. The paper focuses on the attempts by the initial union members to maximize their return from organizing the union. An overlapping generations model is used in the analysis. Seniority wage...

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Privatization in East European Transformation

Fischer, Stanley - 1991

privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several …Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …

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Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers

Skinner, Jonathan - 2005

In his classic 1957 study of hybrid corn, Griliches emphasized the importance of economic incentives and profitability in the adoption of new technology, and this focus has been continued in the economics literature. But there is a distinct literature with roots in sociology emphasizing the...

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Well-Being and Social Capital : Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

Helliwell, John F. - 2004

This paper has a double purpose: to see how well Durkheim's (1897) findings apply a century later, and to see if the beneficial effects of social capital on suicide prevention are parallel to those already found for subjective well-being (Helliwell 2003). The results show that more social...

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