...Annette van den Berg; Arjen van Witteloostuijn; Olivier Van der Brempt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether works councils (WCs) in Belgium have a positive effect on firm performance, notably productivity and profitability, while taking the role of trade unions into account...

... techniques across 75 job categories in a large, public sector organization in Belgium. The analysis provides support for the argument that expectation climate strength via mediating trust-in-the organization effects impacts positively on the relationship between employee expectations and performance...

... – Due to a lack of an existing appropriate measure of job-hopping, the authors introduce a new measure, namely, the job-hop frequency. Based on the data collected from a survey in Belgium, a linear regression analysis is performed. Findings – Through an empirical analysis, the authors show...

... dispersion in the second step, which consists in estimating the following firm-level absenteeism equation: Mélanie Volral can be contacted at: melanie.volral@umons.ac.be © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Belgium Matched employer-employee data Performance-related pay Personnel...

... for their functioning? All of these questions may be bundled together using the concept of capability for voice. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Collective bargaining Industrial relations Capability approach Restructuring Trade unions Deliberative democracy Belgium Automotive industry...

...: (Equation 2) where A_i is a constant. The parameters a´ and aˆ are the respective marginal productivities of each input factor. QL_i can be written as: Belgium Private sector organizations Pay structures Workforce age...

... labour management of temporary contracts during the last 20 years in Belgium, compared to the situation in its neighbouring countries. The authors investigate the determinants of the use of flexible labour contracts and the consequences of their introduction on labour dynamics. Design/methodology...

... countries. Design/methodology/approach The effects of foreign production undertaken by Belgian foreign‐oriented companies on employment in Belgium are investigated by performing econometric tests for complementarity or substitution between home and affiliate employment. The data are from the Amadeus...

... analysis School leavers Belgium Also, discrimination is likely to result in different overeducation probabilities across alternative types of workers. According to the theory of statistical discrimination (Phelps, 1972), employers use the descriptive profile of job seekers as a proxy...

... demonstrates its existence and measures its contribution in the explanation of unemployment persistence in Belgium, besides that of observed and unobserved characteristics. Unemployment Mathematical modelling Belgium Labour Social welfare Since the beginning of the 1970s, following the oil...

...). Sample. The data used in this study was collected by the research consortium “SONAR” (SONAR, 2001) in Flanders (Belgium). Belgium is known as a country with a low participation rate (below the EU average) due to a later entrance of youth on the labour market and the early retirement of many older workers...

...) considers that this practice is one of the most efficient in order to attract and retain talent: he mentions Pfeffer (1994) and Marchington's (1995) results, according to which such a method can create a competitive advantage for the firm. An enquiry conducted in Belgium by references and Vacature...

... job than he could do elsewhere. This would be due to the fact that large firms: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Productivity rate Pay structures Belgium Private sector organizations The existence of a positive effect of firm‐size on workers' wages is well documented...

... 0.01 and 0.02. In sum, there is strong evidence supporting that workers' wages depend upon the firms' ability to pay. Yet, very little is known about: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Pay differentials Profits Gender Belgium The model is solved backwards: the profit...

... of unions in bringing about inter‐industry wage differentials in Belgium. The existence of inter‐industry wage differentials in the Belgian private sector has been recently highlighted by Rycx (2002) . The author shows that their structure is comparable with that observed in the other industrialised...

.... The external segment contains jobs with less job security, lower pay and fewer chances of promotion. Training opportunities and mobility processes are not identical in the different segments of the labour market (De Grip et al., 1990). Training Staff turnover Contracts Flexibility Belgium...

...Frederik Geers Describes the active policy that has been developed during the last few years at national level and at the level of the Flemish Region in Belgium by public bodies and social partners to combat long‐term unemployment. First, analyses the quantitative and qualitative aspects...