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A Cartel Analysis of the German Labor Institutions and its Implications for Labor Market Reforms

Haucap, Justus; Pauly, Uwe; Wey, Christian - 2008

This paper offers a cartel explanation for the stability of German collective bargaining institutions.We show that a dense net of legal safeguards has been yarned around the wage setting cartel. These measures make deviation by cartel insiders less attractive and simultaneously erect entry...

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Raising rivals' fixed (labor) costs : the Deutsche Post case

Heitzler, Sven; Wey, Christian - 2010

We analyze the bargaining problem of an incumbent firm and a union when the wage contract becomes generally binding …

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Reflections on wage-setting

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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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.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 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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Current situation and future trends of the industrial relations system and trade unions in Greece

Nikolopoulos, Andreas; Patra, Eleni - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 353-368

The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...

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30,000 minimum wages : the eonomic effects of collective bargaining extensions

Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

Many governments extend the coverage of collective agreements to workers and employ- ers that were not involved in their bargaining. These extensions may address coordination issues but may also distort competition by imposing sector-specific minimum wages and other work conditions that are not...

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Assessing the legal value added of collective bargaining agreements

Martins, Pedro S.; Saraiva, Joana - 2019

How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In this paper we propose a methodology to address this question: we compare the specific contents of collective agreements (except minimum wages) to their equivalent norms set by...

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Regulating Unions and Collective Bargaining

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn - 2014

. We begin with the simple model of the market for union services and analyze regulations that may increase or decrease … either the demand or supply for union representation. In this way we provide an economic basis for evaluating government … check procedures for selecting a union, which may influence the demand and supply for union services and accordingly union …

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Workers Without Workplaces and Unions Without Unity : Non-Standard Forms of Employment, Platform Work and Collective Bargaining

Aloisi, Antonio - 2020

limits in the European Union system. Finally, it sketches a mapping of nascent initiatives of workers' organization, by …

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First Contract Arbitration and the Employee Free Choice Act : Multi-Jurisdictional Evidence from Canada

Slinn, Sara J.; Hurd, Richard W. - 2011

First contract arbitration (FCA) provisions are posed as a solution to the difficulties of negotiating a first contract for newly certified bargaining units. FCA is a longstanding, and no longer controversial, element of Canadian labor legislation. FCA provisions now exist in six Canadian...

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