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Globalization, Restructuring and Unions : Transnational Coordination and Varieties of Labour Engagement

Pulignano, Valeria; Martinez Lucio, Miguel; Walker, Steve - 2013

This paper considers the various ways in which unions respond to transnational restructuring in their longer-term planning and at different levels of action. To this extent, it avoids simply falling into a workplace-based view of mobilizing, or a national and state level view of union lobbying...

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The Impact of Labor Unions on Worker Rights and on Other Social Movements

Craver, Charles B. - 2011

Labor unions have been in existence for over two hundred years, initially as craft organizations, and more recently as industrial and service organizations. During their existence they have significantly enhanced the wages and fringe benefits of represented workers through the collective...

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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust : Evidence from Cross-Country Data

Addison, John T. - 2017

This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...

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Determinants of Banks Performance and Comparative Analysis of Banking Industry Profitability in Secondary Emerging-, Advanced Emerging- and Developed Market Countries

Akhtanova, Nurgul Kenesovna - 2012

profitability (in terms of ROE) obtained by application of the multivariate empirical econometric regression model to study the … Banks profitability and also the comparative analysis of Banking industry performance in seven countries representing three … variability in main profitability determinants from market to market as well as from year to year. By ranking of the importance of …

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Bank Business Models : Popularity and Performance

Roengpitya, Rungporn - 2017

We allocate banks to distinct business models by experimenting with various combinations of balance sheet characteristics as inputs in cluster analysis. Using a panel of 178 banks for the period 2005-15, we identify a retail-funded and a wholesale-funded commercial banking model that are robust...

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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position

Chor, Davin - 2020

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …

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Getting it Right : Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications from Research on Public-Sector Unionism and Collective Bargaining

Lewin, David; Kochan, Thomas A.; Cutcher-Gershenfeld, … - 2014

In response to public-sector collective-bargaining conflict in Wisconsin and other states, Employment Policy Researcher Network researchers wrote a white paper, "Getting it Right: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications from Research on Public-Sector Unionism and Collective Bargaining."

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The Importance of Political Systems for Trade Union Membership, Coverage, and Influence : Theory and Comparative Evidence

Budd, John W.; Lamare, J. Ryan - 2020

Ideological connections between the state, political systems, and industrial relations have long been important. But the influence of the structural nature of a country’s political system on trade union membership, coverage, and influence has been largely overlooked. We uniquely theorize three...

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Union Networks and Global Unionism in Maritime Shipping

Lillie, Nathan - 2010

Under the auspices of the International Transport Workers' Federation's (ITF) Flag of Convenience campaign, maritime unions have developed transnational global structures exploiting interdependencies in transportation production chains. The ITF, a London-based association of transport unions,...

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Global Unions : Past Efforts and Future Prospects

Fairbrother, Peter - 2010

International trade unionism faces a major challenge. Historically, Global Union Federations have been small and relatively remote international union secretariats with limited capacity to mobilize and speak on behalf of local members. However, with the changing architecture of international...

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