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This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...
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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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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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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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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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. 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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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 (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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contain a statutory trade union recognition mechanism. The recognition mechanisms in the Common Law countries of the United … States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand are examined, and it is argued that Australia should enact trade union recognition …
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Federal sector unionism is a paradox. Despite the outlawry of union-security provisions and strikes, sharp limits on … of card-check certification, federal employees join unions and pay dues. The union membership rate is lower than in state …
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