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from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation … unionisation yields a positive impact on regional productivity, exceeding the wage growth, partly due to the closure of less … productive firms, but also enhanced productivity of the survivors and new entrants. …
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Low pay poses issues for managers internationally. We examine productivity in low-paying sectors in Britain, since the …-incentives channel and linking it to a model of unobserved productivity. We estimate firm-specific productivity measures and aggregate … aggregate low-paying sector productivity. These findings highlight increased wages' incentive effects with implications for …
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In this paper we explore the link between firm labour productivity and the introduction of the NMW over a more than ten … data to calculate firm-specific labour productivity measures and then aggregate them to the level of the low-paying sectors …, aggregate LPC sector labour productivity has been significantly positively affected by the NMW in the long run; the effects …
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financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings …
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In an era of fiscal austerity and dualization of social protection, has organized labor become increasingly split along skill and industry lines? Against recent political science accounts of trade union involvement in social policy-making, this paper argues that, in the specific area of...
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The one-day strike, once a surprising, even exceptional, tactic has become a social phenomenon. Workers now walkout in protest—and quickly return—all the time. So do high school students. The New York Times has published a “how-to” guide. Yet, while headlines tout how more workers struck...
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Purpose – European social protection arrangements have undergone significant transformations since the mid-1970s. However, while the existing literature has focused on reforms in public welfare arrangements, an analysis of both public and private social protection is needed to understand the...
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Purpose - This study sets out to determine the effect of employment security on moonlighting in Ghana as a means to inform policy on enforcing issues of employment security. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the work of Shishko and Rostker (1976) in using the GLSS6 data by...
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There is substantial evidence of minimum wage noncompliance in the US and the UK. In this paper, I compile new, comprehensive data on the costs minimum wage violators incur when detected. In both countries, the costs violators face upon detection are often little more than the money they saved...
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