Unions and Globalisation

Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity∗

We analyse how different labour market institutions — employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’ — affect technology adoption in unionised firms. The analysis is cast in a setting of corporate globalisation, where domestic unionised labour face the double threat of labour-saving technological innovations and international outsourcing of domestic production. In the main part of the analysis, we ...

Shifting Parameters, Divergent Responses: Globalisation and the Trade Unions in Germany and Austria

This two country comparative study examines the effects of globalisation on the room for maneuvre and channels of influence for Austrian and German trade union movements on labour market policy in these countries since the early 1990s. The case selection is informed by the common assessment of these two countries as strongly neocorporatist and " medium " neocorporatist respectively. If the role...

AIDS and globalisation.

Globalisation and corruption

When a country interacts with foreign countries, it exposes itself to foreign culture and behaviour. This exposure could in‡uence the domestic culture through imitation or adaptation in the same way as individuals tend to be in‡uenced in their behaviour by the groups that they frequent. This could carry over to business culture in general and the corruption culture speci…cally. Therefore, the m...

Globalisation and the macroeconomy

Although the topic of globalisation has received considerable attention in many circles, it remains a phenomenon that we are still striving to understand. Not only can globalisation not be captured in a single measure or index, but its economic impacts are also difficult to isolate given the complexities in disentangling globalisation from other important structural changes that have occurred i...