...Laura Bisio; Stefania Cardinaleschi; Riccardo Leoni Purpose Within the two-tier bargaining system, the role of complementary collective bargaining is somewhat controversial. In this paper, the authors analyse collective agreements from a triple perspective: scanning the contents of firm-level...

...Juan Francisco Canal Domínguez; César Rodríguez Gutiérrez Purpose This paper analyses the relationship between wage dispersion and firm size within a “two-tier” system of collective bargaining (firm bargaining and multi-employer bargaining levels). Collective bargaining has a decisive role...

... to rising wage variance across establishments, implying that establishment specific wage premiums have grown. By further decomposing across firm components of wage inequality, it is found that changes in across establishment wage inequality related to collective bargaining, worker co-determination...

... restricted to exclude the year 2007, due to tax reforms introduced in that year which are likely to confound the results [5] . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Employment Collective bargaining Labour-labour substitution Minimum wages Minimum wages in Sweden and the other Nordic...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Determinants Welfare Immigration Unemployment Legislation Employment protection Collective bargaining J61 J50 F22 Do labour market institutions influence mobility decisions of migrants? Is there any interaction between...

... that have favoured agreements on PRP, on the basis of a nationally representative sample of Italian manufacturing and service companies. Findings – The paper shows that collective bargaining on PRP in Italy is positively associated with the presence of unions. The estimates also suggest...

... of the Capability Approach to empirical procedures of collective bargaining in the context of a globalised restructuring process in the automotive sector. “We didn’t have a choice”: this sentence cropped up again and again in our interviews, and it deserves to be examined critically. We will use empirical inquiry...

... systems approach and regards the collective bargaining system as a subsystem of the industrial relations system. It maintains that both the industrial relations actors and the factors such as technology, competition, power, system ideology and the established rules determine the structure and outcomes...

... is considered an alternative to money supply reduction, because it is Pareto preferable, not entailing the social consequences that usually come with a freezing of economic activity from the money supply side. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Collective bargaining Incomes policy...

... payment. Employment legislation Employment protection Collective bargaining Severance Germany Employment protection legislation restricts the ability of employers to utilize labor. These restrictions are typically legislated but may also be set by collective agreements or by the decisions...

... international experiences of labour market reform, employment and social policies, insider‐outsider and institutionally determined unemployment, the German system of collective bargaining and the importance of tripartite corporatist agreements. The paper concludes that reform in the German labour market should...

... by monitoring output, employee surveys and statistics on absence and turnover. Basic approaches to job design are reviewed before a discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of multiskilling, empowerment and increased employee participation. Collective bargaining is examined next, with structures...

... Collective bargaining Family life Industrial relations Work The phrase “equal employment opportunity” has been superseded in the Australian workplace policy discourse by the “family friendly workplace” (FFW). This represents a shift away from the gender specificity associated with EEO towards...

...) into (5), and by further making use of the fact that the net wage of the workers is equal to their reservation wage, we get the following solution to the optimization problem: Equation (14) © MCB UP Limited 1995 Collective bargaining Contracts Leadership Trade Unions In recent...

... to be unrelated to size of employment in the manufacturing sector and the share of female employment, but it is related to the level of collective bargaining and the size of the public sector. An examination of individual and job‐related characteristics finds membership is higher among males, those with family...

... protection afforded by the extension of collectively bargained wage rates adapts automatically in so far as the state of the labour market has an impact on wages in general. To argue that freezing or limiting the size of the increase in the national minimum wage, on the grounds that unemployment will fall...

... and reduce wage differentials both among skill categories and across establishments. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Collective bargaining Economic conditions Industrial relations Italy Low pay Pay differentials Trade unions Pay Employees Much of the empirical research concerned...

... of the minimum wages fixed. Implicit is the underlying notion that, in the absence of satisfactory methods of pay determination, statutory intervention becomes a substitute for collective bargaining. Also implicit is the hope that, in time, adequate collective bargaining machinery will develop in most...

... in collective bargaining, in particular the move from pit‐level piece‐work bargaining to national‐level day rate bargaining. Given the decline of strike activity in the UK and many other industrialized economies in recent years it may be time to reasses the relationship between “alternative” forms of industrial...

... discusses the debate over implementation from the trade unions′ point of view and of the balance between rights and competitiveness. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Collective bargaining European integration Social charter 24 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER 12,2 P rinciples of the Social Charter...